Being Quote by Helen Mirren

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

I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

— Helen Mirren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

— Helen Mirren

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

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