Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood. "
Helen McCrory
Me
Her
Looking Forward
Related Quotes:
" People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. "
Helen McCrory
Think
School
People
" The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself. "
Helen McCrory
Bed
Husband
I Am
" I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces. "
Helen McCrory
Look
Awards
Office
" I was a real art freak when I was a teenager. "
Helen McCrory
Real
Art
Freak
" I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it! "
Helen McCrory
Food
Life
Money
" In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house. That's lovely because it means all the children play together, and all the adults get to sit around and have coffees and read the papers or go to the park. "
Helen McCrory
Children
Together
Sit
" As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it. "
Helen McCrory
Body
Confident
Feel
" I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it. "
Helen McCrory
Film
More
Appreciate
" I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. "
Helen McCrory
Me
Decision
Happiness
" I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country. "
Helen McCrory
Country
Responsibility
Think
" The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run. "
Helen McCrory
Home
Husband
Someone
" What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have. "
Helen McCrory
Life
People
Theatre
" When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born. "
Helen McCrory
Born
Mother
Morning
" I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better. "
Helen McCrory
Sleep
Better
Feeling
" I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours. "
Helen McCrory
Theatre
Love
Me
" If you think you are beautiful in a scene, you will come across as beautiful. I don't think looks are important; I think what's important is if someone is sexy. "
Helen McCrory
You
Sexy
Important
" People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals. "
Helen McCrory
Together
See
Others
" What really matters to me is what my peers think. "
Helen McCrory
Really
Think
Me
" There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life! "
Helen McCrory
Philosophy
Life
Home
" I really love my food. My favourite thing is artichokes. I am not so much interested in desserts or chocolate, though. I also like to cook with my husband Damian. "
Helen McCrory
Love
Husband
Food
" So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people. "
Helen McCrory
People
Mean
You
" I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it. "
Helen McCrory
Feel
Sunlight
My Life
" You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.' "
Helen McCrory
Good
People
Think
" I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education. "
Helen McCrory
Listen
Education
Go
" What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself. "
Helen McCrory
Most
Myself
Find
" A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible. "
Helen McCrory
Friday
Start
Theatre
" I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything. "
Helen McCrory
Love
Music
People
" I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice. "
Helen McCrory
Great
Performance
Start
" Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. "
Helen McCrory
Odd
Films
Moments
" I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun. "
Helen McCrory
Hair
Love
Week