Hayley Mills quotes:

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.

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.

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

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

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

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

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

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.

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

My best feature is my hair.

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

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.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have a horror of being in confined spaces.

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 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.

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

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.