Keeley Hawes Quotes

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it.

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

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.

I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.

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.

I don't punish myself. Life's too short.

I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up.

I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

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.

I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.

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.

'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.

I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.

I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.

The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

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.

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

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.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

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.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Botox and other fillers make everybody look the same, with the big cheekbones where they fill you up. It's much cheaper to have a fringe - it takes years off everybody.