Quotes from Keeley Hawes

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

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

'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.

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

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.

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.

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 was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.

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

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

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.

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.

I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.

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

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

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!

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 am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.