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Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Acting Posture Women

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' they would say, 'No.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Feminism History Women

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Insecurity Self Doubt Youth

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Relationship Women Laugh

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

Helen Mirren Good Husband Long

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Life Myself God

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

Helen Mirren Good Sometimes Bad

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Gardening Fun You

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Life Deal How

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Good Believe Good People

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

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Good Way Wasting Time

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

Helen Mirren World Recognition Spy

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

Helen Mirren Wisdom Thank God People

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

Helen Mirren Love Relationship Joy

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

Helen Mirren Art Reality Philosophy

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Great Partnerships

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Love Work Grow

I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

~ Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren Internet People Television
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