Helen Mirren Quotes

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.'

Helen Mirren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 26, 1945

Topics

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The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

Robert Jeffress

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Soichiro Honda

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One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

Roma Downey

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When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

Javier Bardem

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I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

David Suzuki

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I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Anthony Horowitz

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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

Peter Berg

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There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

Richelle Mead

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First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

Mariella Frostrup

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One of the big ways in which I felt my own writing life shaped by recovery had to do with my relationship to other people's stories. And one of the things I loved most about recovery was the way in which, in meetings and through fellowship, you are constantly kind of paying attention to lives outside of your own.

Leslie Jamison

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