Helen Mirren Quotes

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

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.

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.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

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.

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.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

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.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.