57 Helen Mirren Quotes for You to Enjoy

Helen Mirren

British Actress

Born: Jul 26, 1945

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I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile. Helen Mirren

Time Good You People Good Things Bad People Sometimes Try Random Will Good People Bad Things Believe Everything Spending Bad Worthwhile Something Least Accidental Doing Very Happen Then Your Things Things Happen

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit. Helen Mirren

Life Work God Myself You Yourself Thank God My Life Situation Bit Tells Something Schedule Weekend Weekends Never Over Indulge Said Arrived Friday Thank Stopped Where Place Your Special Even Found

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

Love Day Relationship You Joy Fear Pain Other Rapidly Some Followed Follows Angst Joyful Know Most Because Always Falling Falling In Love Going Realize Should Full Moment Actually Awful Night

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it. Helen Mirren

Life Learning Trick Deal How

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

Today Daily People Slow Inevitable Living Difficulty Facing Parkinson Never Know Quite Process Hard Daily Basis Basis

Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. Helen Mirren

Sometimes Sexy More Than Clothed Being

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are. Helen Mirren

Life You Sometimes Rest Big Run Running Running Away Part Well Makes Becomes Up Big Part Where Grew Your Who Away

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' 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

Young Think Idiots Should

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. Helen Mirren

Gorgeous Kind Cast Never Because Star

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. Helen Mirren

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it. Helen Mirren

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. Helen Mirren

Beautiful You Miserable Young Paranoid

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

Me You Water Ocean Proliferation Tell Scares Bottle Bottles Bags Know Terrified Does Bloody Just Landfill Plastic Why Things

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. Helen Mirren

Art You Reality Internet Will Free Other Back Philosophy Way Destroy Independent Independent Movies Some Make Industry Because Go Art Form Up Piracy Maybe Expensive Movie Form Again Little Movies Then Should Film Film Industry Start Start-Up Funky

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. Helen Mirren

Work You Fear Beginning Stage Every Sick Adrenalin Through Take Perform Occasion Terribly Still Fright Get Trying Expecting Just Stage Fright Chin Use Suffer Cope Necessarily Every Night Night

I love photography, and I love the art of photography. Helen Mirren

Love Art Photography

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. Helen Mirren

Me Motherhood No Interest Instinct Maternal Whatsoever Holds Interest

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. Helen Mirren

Me You Women Hate Strong Say Characters Phrases About Annoy Feisty Most Female Female Characters Condescending Reference Really Thing Two

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. Helen Mirren

Experience People Edge Some Parkinson Weird Human Human Experience

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