306 Quotes by Helen Mirren

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Obviously, we're putting 20 years into four hours, so things have to become truncated.

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.

One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about being the queen, and everybody had better treat her as the queen. I am not like that.