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Helen Mirren Quotes

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.

Helen Mirren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People You Powerful Table Acting

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

John Bright

Great Peace I Am Party Thirty Years

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

John Updike

New York New Return Left Course He

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Moby

Music People Possible Point Get Far

I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?

Donald Trump, Jr.

Mother Mountain Think Wrong Jump Go

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

Debbie Reynolds

Good Friend Time Loved She Close

Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Experience People Me Play My Own

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

Age History Art Architecture Past

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

Allison Schroeder

NASA Grandfather Grandmother Software

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Allison Janney

Home Girl God Constitution Think

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Alfred de Vigny

Life Art Imitation Arts Only Use

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Suze Orman

Destination Impossible You Know Map

Maybe I'm a boy, or maybe I'm a girl.

Poppy

Girl Boy Maybe