You write your life story by the choices you make. Helen Mirren More Quotes by Helen Mirren More Quotes From Helen Mirren I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security. Helen Mirren golden roles queens What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally. Helen Mirren different jobs two I woke up one day and realized I could never be an American. Helen Mirren one-day It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying. Helen Mirren ridiculous annoying girlfriend As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it. Helen Mirren age men thinking 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 live-your-life husband done We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. Helen Mirren idiot should thinking I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology. Helen Mirren children people thinking Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does. Helen Mirren input actors doe I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV! Helen Mirren hard-work meditation believe They’re called action scenes because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes. Helen Mirren acting action doe 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. Helen Mirren popcorn roles hate 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 which. Helen Mirren clothes insane two I loathe, I hate, chick flicks. Helen Mirren chick-flick chicks hate Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks. Helen Mirren girl hate together I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them. Helen Mirren next generations actors I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. Helen Mirren terrified lines I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work. Helen Mirren artist giving interesting Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream. Helen Mirren feet dream hands I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my experience, you never quite get to be peaceful in the profession that we have all chosen. It's a constant yearning, a constant reaching out for the unreachable. And so you never quite find peace within yourself. You are always questioning yourself and challenging yourself and feeling that you would fall short. Helen Mirren challenges reality fall
