Helen Mirren Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Long, Able, Technique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

  Helen Mirren

  Lines, Terrified

  Interview With John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Understanding, Age

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• It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

  Helen Mirren

  Girlfriend, Ridiculous, Annoying

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• 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

  Interesting, Left

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• There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

  Helen Mirren

  Sexy, Dressing Up, Scene

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

  Helen Mirren

  Falling In Love, Pain, Night

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• I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

  Helen Mirren

  Husband, Home, London

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• I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

  Helen Mirren

  Who I Am, People, Pleasant

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

  Helen Mirren

  Character, People, Interesting

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• In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

  Helen Mirren

  Men, Alchemist, Would Be

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Married, Reason, Economics

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• You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity.

  Helen Mirren

  Maturity, Opposites, Quality

  "His 'Potential Was In Maturity': Helen Mirren, Chris Columbus On Alan Rickman". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

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• When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

  Helen Mirren

  Powerful, People, Acting

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• I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

  Helen Mirren

  Ignorant, Arrogant, Starting Out

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• I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

  Helen Mirren

  Blow, Noses, Dignity

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• We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Idiot, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Mirrors, Advice

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

  Helen Mirren

  Ocean, Water, Scare

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• Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. I think people tend to get the two mixed up.

  Helen Mirren

  Sexy, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

  Helen Mirren

  People, Today, Process

  "Helen Mirren: 'it's time we all understood Parkinson's disease'" by Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 1, 2010.

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• Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

  Helen Mirren

  Fun, Gardening, Always Learning

  Interview with Anne Brodie, me.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Littles, Sometimes, Impatient

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• You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.

  Helen Mirren

  Play

  "Hollywood's Brightest Stars, on Hollywood's Biggest Night". abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2007.

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• I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.

  Helen Mirren

  Imagination, World, Saws

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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