Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it.… — 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 think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because… — 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
Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really… — 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
