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" Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child. "

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" I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country. "

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" 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. "

" When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable. "

" 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 needs women. "

" The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press. "

" 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 only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress. "

" I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. "

" There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time. "

" 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 once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it. "

" 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. "

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

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

Helen Mirren

Instinct

Motherhood

" I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys. "

Helen Mirren

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" I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. "

" I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' "

" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

" We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. "

" The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

" I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile. "

" I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that. "

" Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. "

" I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.' "

" Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. "

Helen Mirren

Ought

Rogues

" I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.' "

Helen Mirren

I Am

Love

" My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. "

" I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like. "

" I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating. "

" Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything. "

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

Helen Mirren

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