Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Millsis an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay, the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyannaand Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 April 1946
CityLondon, England
It's like finding oneself amongst friends. People look at you as if they like you. That is, until they actually get to know you.
I mean, there's not an awful lot of limelight. Perhaps at premieres and the pictures and the people; that's all exciting. But the actual work, like today: it's just work; it's just the work I happen to do instead of going to an office and being a secretary or in a shop, you know?
You are either old souls who connect and share the same interest... or you are not.
There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.
Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know.
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 cry in movies a lot, and over books.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.
It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.
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.
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.