Mary Clancy: I'm not a child. I'm a midget with bad habits.


--Hayley Mills (as ) in The Trouble with Angels

Mary Clancy: I've got the most scathingly brilliant idea!


--Hayley Mills (as ) in The Trouble with Angels

Mary Grant: [singing] Cast away, cast away: trust in your star. You know I will find you wherever you are. Though all your dreams may be tossed by the tide, cling to your hopes: never cast them aside. Cast away, cast away, though you may be lost in the wilderness, over the sea: I will discover your cast away shore, and you'll be a cast away no more. Oh, you'll be a cast away no more.


--Hayley Mills (as ) in In Search of the Castaways

Nancy Carey: Oh, Gilly, you can't take everything. There's just not gonna be room in our horrid new house, and we can't afford to pay storage on junk.
Gilly Carey: Why is my stuff always junk and your stuff always priceless? Here, you can have it, Peter.
Peter Carey: Thanks! I'll put it with my junk.
Nancy Carey: A lot of good that did.


--Hayley Mills (as Nancy Carey) in Summer Magic

Nancy Carey: We can't afford that horrible little house? Oh, Mother, that's wonderful! Mother, do you remember after Father - well, you remember how we all made ourselves feel better by talking about the things that had been fun with him? And the best thing we thought of was that time we were all in Maine.
Margaret Carey: And we saw the yellow house in Beulah.
Nancy Carey: And we peered into the windows, and wasn't it wonderful? And nobody lived there!
Gilly Carey: Hey, that was years ago. You're wild.
Peter Carey: I remember it.
Gilly Carey: You weren't even born!
Nancy Carey: Well, Mother, a few weeks ago, I decided to try and find out about that yellow house. So I wrote to the postmaster in Beulah, and he answered! His name is Ossium Popham - isn't it a beautiful name?


--Hayley Mills (as Nancy Carey) in Summer Magic

Nancy Carey: You see, Mother, we were meant to live here!


--Hayley Mills (as Nancy Carey) in Summer Magic

Patti Randall: [Patti scared jeweler, Mister Hofstedder, with imaginary newspaper headline, so she could call FBI and re-contact FBI agent, Zeke Kelso & speak with an accent] "Mr. Hofstedder. He Could Have Saved Her".


--Hayley Mills (as ) in That Darn Cat!

Patti Randall: [Patti, to FBI Supervisor Newton, while he is at the Marshall's house, speaking of DC] He's really diabolically clever.


--Hayley Mills (as ) in That Darn Cat!

Patti Randall: [Patty is inside Hofstedder's Jewlry Store, just before she called the FBI as 'Daphne Hofstedder'] Now, I know you very well, and you're a sweet man and you would never forgive yourself if something terrible happened to Margaret Miller, and it could. I can just see the headlines "Mister Hofstedder, He Could Have Saved Her".


--Hayley Mills (as ) in That Darn Cat!

Patti Randall: Canoe, this is just a wild idea, but has it occurred to you that there might be more to life than just surfing and eating?
Canoe Henderson: Like what?
Patti Randall: Forget it, I just realized I was talking to myself.


--Hayley Mills (as ) in That Darn Cat!