Keeley Hawes Quotes

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.

At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.