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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.
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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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'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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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 total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.
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I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it.
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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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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 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.