306 Quotes by Helen Mirren

People become more interesting from about 25 – they develop character and their personalities come out.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don’t see the finished product at all. You’re not animating. You’re not doing the voice on the finished product. You’re doing the voice long before.

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.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don’t know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

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

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.

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.

I’m not an impersonator. I’m a lousy impersonator, actually.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are ‘strong’ and ‘feisty.’ They really annoy me. It’s the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.