Hayley Mills quotes

Hayley Mills is a British actress best known for her work as a child star in classic films such as "Pollyanna" and "The Parent Trap." Her performances charmed audiences worldwide and earned her numerous awards, including an Academy Juvenile Award. She continues to be celebrated for her contributions to cinema and her enduring appeal. Here are 21 of her quotes:

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Hayley Mills

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Hayley Mills

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

Hayley Mills

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

Hayley Mills

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.

Hayley Mills

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

Hayley Mills

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

Hayley Mills

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Hayley Mills

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

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