306 Quotes by Helen Mirren

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.’

I think it’s always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That’s why everybody – wars, you know. It’s the hardest. And it’s the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

They’re called ‘action scenes’ because they do the acting for you. You don’t have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It’s great.

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.

People with Parkinson’s are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on ‘RED,’ was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

I used to look out the window of my bedroom as a kid, and there were these stars that, in my mind, made a big “A” in the sky. I thought my destiny was to go there.