Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing:… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
It's never been confirmed that Elizabeth I was a virgin. It's like the Virgin Mary - it's about branding, a logo. To use a… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
When I was doing Shakespeare and I had spent a lot of time and effort in trying to become a great Shakespearean actress. That… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I always tell my husband, That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted, and he's just like, Yeah, yeah. Sure. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image