Helen Mirren Quotes
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Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.
— Helen Mirren
There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
— Helen Mirren
It's great to be queen!
— Helen Mirren
People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.
— Helen Mirren
I'm not beautiful; I clean up nice.
— Helen Mirren
The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." - Helen Mirren
— Judith Weston
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.
— Helen Mirren
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.
— Helen Mirren
I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American.
— Helen Mirren
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
— Helen Mirren
You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.
— Helen Mirren
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
— Helen Mirren
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.
— Helen Mirren
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
— Helen Mirren
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
— Helen Mirren
I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
— Helen Mirren
I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.
— Helen Mirren
I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
— Thomas Haden Church
I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.
— Helen Mirren
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.
— Helen Mirren
Being me right now is sort of amazing.
— Helen Mirren
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
— Helen Mirren
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.
— Helen Mirren
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.
— Helen Mirren
You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.
— Helen Mirren
I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.
— Helen Mirren
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
— Helen Mirren
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.
— Helen Mirren
I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.
— Helen Mirren
I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
— Helen Mirren
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
— Helen Mirren
You have to allow life to play itself out.
— Helen Mirren
I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.
— Helen Mirren
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.
— Helen Mirren
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
— Helen Mirren
You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.
— Helen Mirren
Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.
— Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
— Aaron Sorkin
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
— Helen Mirren
Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.
— Helen Mirren
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.
— Helen Mirren
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
— Helen Mirren
We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.
— Helen Mirren
I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
— Helen Mirren
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
— Helen Mirren
Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.
— Helen Mirren
Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'
— Helen Mirren
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
— Helen Mirren
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
— Helen Mirren
I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.
— Helen Mirren
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology
— Helen Mirren
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
— Helen Mirren
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
— Helen Mirren
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
— Helen Mirren
You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."
— Helen Mirren
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
— Helen Mirren
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
— Helen Mirren
I love that country [Israel].
— Helen Mirren
Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude.
— Helen Mirren
As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
— Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
— Barry Watson
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.
— Helen Mirren
I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.
— Helen Mirren
Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.
— Helen Mirren
Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.
— Helen Mirren
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
— Helen Mirren
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.
— Helen Mirren
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.
— Helen Mirren
I love photography, and I love the art of photography.
— Helen Mirren
Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.
— Helen Mirren
Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.
— Helen Mirren
I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.
— Jennifer Nettles
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
— Helen Mirren