Top 100 Quotes About Hawes
#1. The women in 'Downton Abbey' don't compare to the women in 'Upstairs Downstairs.' Ours are stunning. We've got Laura Haddock, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy ... beautiful women.
Neil Jackson
#2. Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again.
Jason Hawes
#3. No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
Elizabeth Hawes
#4. If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.
Jason Hawes
#5. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#6. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#7. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#9. The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.
Keeley Hawes
#10. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#12. The gallant captain vacated his cabin for her, and Manna changed her role from cook to chaperone. All most correct. But it was hardly the done thing to cadge a lift on a torpedo boat. Yet she did it twice in a lifetime.
Mary Allsebrook
#13. In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.
James Hawes
#14. Fashion is that horrid little man with an evil eye who tells you that your last winter's coat may be in perfect physical condition, but you can't wear it. You can't wear it because it has a belt and this year 'we are not showing belts.
Elizabeth Hawes
#16. A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
Josiah Johnson Hawes
#17. Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.
Elizabeth Hawes
#18. '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.
Keeley Hawes
#19. There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.
Elizabeth Hawes
#20. I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.
Keeley Hawes
#21. The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
Elizabeth Hawes
#22. If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.
Elizabeth Hawes
#23. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#24. Bearings
You are my dear compass,
who knows no way but true,
so when I'm lost and drifting,
I find myself in you.
Yet when I ask you, fearful,
if I should set you free,
imagine my surprise to hear
you take your north from me.
Louise Hawes
#25. You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful ...
Elizabeth Hawes
#26. I love fashion; I adore it. I love the madness of it.
Keeley Hawes
#27. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#28. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#29. Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.
Mary Allsebrook
#30. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#31. I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
Keeley Hawes
#32. '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.
Keeley Hawes
#33. There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
Elizabeth Hawes
#34. After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.
Elizabeth Hawes
#35. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#36. I worked in McDonald's, but I didn't mind it. You got free cheeseburgers. I love eating a bit of junk food.
Keeley Hawes
#37. I love washing, hoovering, ironing, you name it. I find it very therapeutic.
Keeley Hawes
#38. I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.
Keeley Hawes
#39. Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?
Elizabeth Hawes
#40. The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
#42. If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
Elizabeth Hawes
#43. I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.
Keeley Hawes
#44. I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
Keeley Hawes
#45. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#46. Paraphrashed :People wear what they wear because of what goes on in their heads ... it has nothing to do with their size or shape.
Elizabeth Hawes
#47. There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.
Keeley Hawes
#48. Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
Elizabeth Hawes
#49. No outsider was allowed in the station except wives of the higher officers and a few friends. Where was Harriet in all this excitement? In the station, taking the train with the troops to Piraeus.
Mary Allsebrook
#50. We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.
Jason Hawes
#51. Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
Keeley Hawes
#52. I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up.
Keeley Hawes
#53. When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
Keeley Hawes
#54. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#55. There may come a time when you will wish you had never tasted the fruit from the tree of knowledge. There may even come a time when you will lie about who took the first bite.
Louise Hawes
#56. I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
Keeley Hawes
#58. I've been shot at and missed and shit at and hit. That's a saying out of my childhood and it's come true more than a few times along the way.
Hampton Hawes
#59. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#60. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#61. We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.
Jason Hawes
#62. I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.
Elizabeth Hawes
#63. One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.
Elizabeth Hawes
#64. I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'
Keeley Hawes
#65. She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.
Mary Allsebrook
#66. I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
Keeley Hawes
#67. Many thanks for your good wishes. The fact is, however, that I have not been ill except a two days attack of indigestion and subsequent fatigue, from which I am quite recovered. It is less easy to recover from a serious attack of indignation.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
#68. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#69. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#70. Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
Elizabeth Hawes
#71. Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.
Keeley Hawes
#72. All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
Elizabeth Hawes
#73. Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.
Keeley Hawes
#74. Being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
#75. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#76. He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
Josiah Johnson Hawes
#77. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#78. It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
Elizabeth Hawes
#79. Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.
Elizabeth Hawes
#81. If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.
Keeley Hawes
#82. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#83. Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the laws, but of religious institutions, and honorably bear his part in supporting them.
Josiah Johnson Hawes
#84. Yes, I'm anal. I am just really organised.
Keeley Hawes
#85. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#86. It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him.
"Why not?"
"Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.
Louise Hawes
#88. Daughters of the Moon,
children of the Night,
rise like dew together
until the morning's light.
The owl's cry is our anthem,
our altar is the sky.
The Great Mystery is our Mother
to whom now, sisters, fly.
Louise Hawes
#89. All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it ...
Elizabeth Hawes
#90. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#91. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#92. She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.
Mary Allsebrook
#93. If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.
Keeley Hawes
#94. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#95. [The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.
Mary Allsebrook
#96. 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.
Keeley Hawes
#97. All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.
Jason Hawes
#98. We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.
Keeley Hawes
#100. If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.
Elizabeth Hawes
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