Keeley Hawes Quotes
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I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
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I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.
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We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.
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I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.
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The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.
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When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.
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I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.
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It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
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In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all.
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I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.
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There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough!
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Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.
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Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.
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My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.
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I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'
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I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.
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I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up.
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It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.
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I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one big happy family. But we do see each other frequently, and everyone loves each other, and we are all friends.
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There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.