Helen Mirren Quotes

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.

Helen Mirren

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatArtPeopleThinkHardHead

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

John Grogan

MovingRockBandFloridaYearsBass

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

John Caudwell

LearningMeLearnCurvesYouEarly

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Matthew Arnold

MindImpossibleMiraclesHumanTake

Chicken parm is hard to beat.

Jeff Van Gundy

ChickenHardBeat

Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.

Troy Carter

MeanConcertGoingSellMillion

I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

Trent Reznor

MusicThinkPlanWayTryOut

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Romola Garai

WomenDiscriminationKindWorkplace

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

Ronnie Dunn

TechnologyPastPeopleMeThinkYou

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

Mick Jones

GuitarNeverPlayerReallyVirtuoso

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

DeathCountrysideSomethingEnglish

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Douglas Coupland

OldYearsOurAboutHeads

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Chuck Schumer

GoodWarWinBelieveRegretDoing

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