Forever Young Quotes

“There was something very strange about her. Sometimes I would be in the basement kitchen of the house and she would stop and crouch down, and peer in through the railings, like a child.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“But then, something happened, something clicked inside me, and I understood how they felt. They were trying to grow up too, to live their own lives, to discover themselves, to find their own voices as individuals,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Up to that day, however bad or confusing things were in the world, you could always take comfort in the knowledge that the Beatles were out there, singing their songs, weaving their enchantments, expressing how we all felt, secretly, deep down inside—because they understood us.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“You’ll never work on the stage, Hayley,” he chuckled, eyes twinkling as he poured a small bottle of Guinness. “You make too many faces, you screw your face up too much.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“His performance on The Johnny Carson Show with Shelley Winters is an extraordinary example of his brazen misogyny which resulted in Shelley pouring her whisky and soda on his head, which he thoroughly deserved! I rather regret not doing the same thing myself.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“really disliked the way he talked about women as if they were a lower species.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Interestingly, I’ve heard so many psychotherapists talk about how children of alcoholics often unconsciously gravitate toward partners with addictive personalities who can supply those familiar patterns of intense emotion”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“I recognized the need to search for God in my life—but for now, it was personal and private.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“And there’s the irony: one spends the rest of one’s life trying to recreate that youthful bloom with ridiculously expensive creams and facials and surgery.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Bunch was in New York doing Alfie with Terence Stamp.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“sphere of my “family” was actually very frightening. Instinctively, I felt the urge to leave, but in my gut I didn’t feel quite ready.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Everyone has to leave home at some point. It’s a healthy impulse. If you don’t “come of age” and strike out on your own, it’s like missing a fundamental evolutionary step in your development. It should have been a simple no-brainer for me, a natural parting of the ways; but it wasn’t that simple at all. The thought of leaving the safe, protective”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“They forced her to wear caps on her teeth and a cap on her nose until she was twenty-one when”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“was actually the second Beatles gig I had seen, since the year before at the Royal Variety Performance. On that night I had watched from the wings when John stepped up to the microphone and famously quipped, “For the people in the cheaper seats—clap your hands. The rest of you just rattle your jewelry!” It brought the house down.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“The bed was spikey thanks to bits of old toast, which I’d struggled with at breakfast,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“and they had attacked her, pulled her hair and ripped her beautiful rainbow-colored woolen coat to shreds.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“This is all going very well,” until we came to say goodbye—and I realized that I’d left one of my false nails in the palm of his”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“For a long time afterward I remembered the conversations we had, and I would inwardly and outwardly cringe at all the asinine remarks I felt I had made from sheer nerves, while working out all the beautiful, perfectly intelligent exchanges, that never happened.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“now understood what it was like for him to be in the eye of that storm.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Beatlemania was still in its infancy, and George hadn’t become completely exhausted by it all yet, but it’s easy to see now how this mass hysteria would soon wear them all down.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“George had a habit of getting to within an inch of your face when he spoke,”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“He reminded me of a little foal peering out from under a bear skin rug; his smile is rather wicked but in the most innocent sort of way; when he laughs it’s as if there’s a tiny leprechaun sitting on his shoulder who pulls one side of his mouth up and whispers wicked things into his ear.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“seventeen-year-old girl, it was 1964, and I was going on a date with George Harrison. I described the evening in great detail in my journal.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“absorbed in my books and my music and my thoughts of boys and the Beatles, I simply didn’t want to know.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Books have been a passion and a solace ever since.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“Daddy presided over breakfast with an Astrakhan Cossack’s hat on his head and an alpaca jacket over his pajamas; Bunchy was wearing a polo neck sweater over her nightie and a huge pair of earrings; Jonathan buttered toast while wearing great leather gloves. I wore my fur boots from Mummy under my nightie”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“It all sounds incredibly old-fashioned now, but the sexual revolution of the 1960s had yet to storm my Bastille—and anyway, I was still a virgin.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“My cleavage? What cleavage?” I was astonished.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“It was hard not to feel slightly jealous, she was so beautiful, free, and completely unique.”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young

“I wish I had known more back then. It would have saved me literally years of abject”
― Hayley Mills, Forever Young