Hayley Mills > Quotes

“I recognized the need to search for God in my life—but for now, it was personal and private.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Everyone has to leave home at some point. It’s a healthy impulse. If you don’t “come of age” and strike out on your own, it’s like missing a fundamental evolutionary step in your development. It should have been a simple no-brainer for me, a natural parting of the ways; but it wasn’t that simple at all. The thought of leaving the safe, protective”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“A death threat had come to the attention of the FBI, by way of an anonymous letter, which claimed to know all about my visit to New York and that it was their “mission to kill me,” that I was “a son of a bitch” and they were going to make sure that I never reached my sixteenth birthday.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“He reminded me of a little foal peering out from under a bear skin rug; his smile is rather wicked but in the most innocent sort of way; when he laughs it’s as if there’s a tiny leprechaun sitting on his shoulder who pulls one side of his mouth up and whispers wicked things into his ear.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“was actually the second Beatles gig I had seen, since the year before at the Royal Variety Performance. On that night I had watched from the wings when John stepped up to the microphone and famously quipped, “For the people in the cheaper seats—clap your hands. The rest of you just rattle your jewelry!” It brought the house down.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Then suddenly it hit me. She was grown up. She’d left me behind. I felt hot tears stab my eyes. I didn’t want her to go, I didn’t want to imagine life without her. She gave shape to things, she always knew what to do, she always had plans—but she’d flown the nest. Who was going to make plans now?”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“They had been close friends for thirty years and my parents had been there for them throughout Vivien’s constant battles with mental illness and the couple’s painful separation”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“George had a habit of getting to within an inch of your face when he spoke,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“but it felt like a monstrous invasion in more ways than one.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“First experiences have a huge impact upon our lives, upon our future, for good or bad, but Gillie was perfect. I thought if I had”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“You’ll never work on the stage, Hayley,” he chuckled, eyes twinkling as he poured a small bottle of Guinness. “You make too many faces, you screw your face up too much.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“I thought of all those doughnuts.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“But then, something happened, something clicked inside me, and I understood how they felt. They were trying to grow up too, to live their own lives, to discover themselves, to find their own voices as individuals,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“As a result of the embezzlement of Jackie’s earnings and the publicity surrounding the court case, a new law was created called the California Child Actor’s Bill or, more popularly, “The Coogan Act.” The act was designed to protect child actors from the depredations of their parents and advisers, and safeguard their money.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“There was something very strange about her. Sometimes I would be in the basement kitchen of the house and she would stop and crouch down, and peer in through the railings, like a child.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“chrome and red leather stools, gorging on a mountainous ice-cream sundae—it was heaven. And if you sat in one of the booths you could have your own private jukebox. For just a dime you could play anything you wanted:”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“seventeen-year-old girl, it was 1964, and I was going on a date with George Harrison. I described the evening in great detail in my journal.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“It all sounds incredibly old-fashioned now, but the sexual revolution of the 1960s had yet to storm my Bastille—and anyway, I was still a virgin.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“They forced her to wear caps on her teeth and a cap on her nose until she was twenty-one when”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“I wish I had known more back then. It would have saved me literally years of abject”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Sixty years on, I still haven’t got over it.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“My cleavage? What cleavage?” I was astonished.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Up to that day, however bad or confusing things were in the world, you could always take comfort in the knowledge that the Beatles were out there, singing their songs, weaving their enchantments, expressing how we all felt, secretly, deep down inside—because they understood us.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“For a long time afterward I remembered the conversations we had, and I would inwardly and outwardly cringe at all the asinine remarks I felt I had made from sheer nerves, while working out all the beautiful, perfectly intelligent exchanges, that never happened.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Beatlemania was still in its infancy, and George hadn’t become completely exhausted by it all yet, but it’s easy to see now how this mass hysteria would soon wear them all down.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Bunch was in New York doing Alfie with Terence Stamp.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“This is all going very well,” until we came to say goodbye—and I realized that I’d left one of my false nails in the palm of his”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Somewhere, up there in the darkness, Laika was circling the Earth in her tiny space capsule. The canine cosmonaut was a husky-mix stray from the streets of Moscow, the first dog to be launched out of the Earth’s atmosphere. How terrified she must have been, I thought, how terrible the pain in her ears as the g-forces assailed her, abandoned in the void with nothing to eat or drink. She was dead now,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Books have been a passion and a solace ever since.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“now understood what it was like for him to be in the eye of that storm.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young