Collected Meditations
Showing 9 quotesPatience 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
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Patience
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
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Movies
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.— Helen Mirren
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Learning
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
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
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
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Gardening
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.— Helen Mirren
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Freedom
I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.— Helen Mirren
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Fear