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.

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

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

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 horror of being in confined spaces.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.