Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actress Hayley Mills.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, she began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.
I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.
It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.
My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
My best feature is my hair.
Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.