I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.' Helen Mirren More Quotes by Helen Mirren More Quotes From Helen Mirren It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. Helen Mirren life-and-love hate real 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 film answers people The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press. Helen Mirren presses oscars poor Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore. Helen Mirren miles car world 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. Helen Mirren husband space long I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up. Helen Mirren wall girl school Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate. Helen Mirren hate trying thinking There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. Helen Mirren falling-in-love pain night 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 because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. Helen Mirren thank-god trying people I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting. Helen Mirren beautiful people thinking 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 guy taken men I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role. Helen Mirren favour republican roles It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. Helen Mirren independent philosophy art My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been. Helen Mirren debt parent thinking 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. Helen Mirren spy roles needs There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room. Helen Mirren scary successful rooms 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 impatient littles sometimes Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. Helen Mirren always-learning gardening fun I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. Helen Mirren gorgeous stars kind People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. Helen Mirren parkinsons human-experience people
