Helen Mirren quotes - page 4

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating. (Helen Mirren)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's great to be queen! View quote
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It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. View quote
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My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. View quote
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I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else. View quote
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The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism. View quote
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I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security. (Helen Mirren)
Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything. View quote
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I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. View quote
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When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. View quote
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I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry. View quote
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Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing. View quote
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The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. View quote
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American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that. View quote
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Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. View quote
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When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before. View quote
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I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. (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. View quote
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It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. View quote
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There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room. View quote
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Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. View quote
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