Quotes by Helen Mirren

About Helen Mirren:

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007, after two previous nominations, for her performance as Elizabeth II in The Queen. In 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, after two previous nominations, for her performance in The Audience, in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen. Mirren won her first of several Emmy Awards in 1993 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the acclaimed ITV series Prime Suspect, which ran for a total of seven seasons from 1991 to 2006.
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When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

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 on...

Helen Mirren

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

Helen Mirren

The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was whi...

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

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

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

The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.

Helen Mirren

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

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I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.

Helen Mirren

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

Helen Mirren

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

Helen Mirren

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but ...

Helen Mirren

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

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

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

Helen Mirren

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

Helen Mirren

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

Helen Mirren

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

Helen Mirren

Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

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I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

Helen Mirren

Author Bio

  • NameHelen Mirren
  • DescriptionBritish actress
  • AliasesDame Helen Lydia Mirren
  • BornJuly 26, 1945
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsList Of Awards And Nominations Received By Helen Mirren; Academy Award For Best Actress; Dame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire