Keeley Hawes Quotes
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I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.
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Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.
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My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.
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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.
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I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.
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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
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When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.
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Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
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There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.
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I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
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If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.
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Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.
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'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.
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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.
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The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.
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'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.
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I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it.
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I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.
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My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that's about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe.
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I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
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I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.
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There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
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I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.