Quotes by Helen Mirren

Theres no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. Its a world that needs women.

When youre young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. Its 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.

There is that awful moment when you realize that youre falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually its not. Its always a moment thats 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.

Itll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. Theres 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 its expensive to make a movie. Maybe youll have funky little independent movies, and itll go back and then start up again some other way.

The great marriages are partnerships. It cant be a great marriage without being a partnership.

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.

Im 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.