Keeley Hawes Quotes

• 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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• 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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• ‘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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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’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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• Yes, I’m anal. I am just really organised.

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Keeley Hawes (44)

Birth:	10th February, 1976
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Keeley Hawes is an English actress and former model. She starred in The Last September and has voiced roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series. She is also known for her roles as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks, Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes, and Lady Agnes in the 2010-2012 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs.

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