"There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room."
"I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world."
"Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women."
"Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude."
"I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous."
"The trick in life is learning how to deal with it."
The utterly magnificent Dame Helen Mirren is 80 years old!
All hail.
Many happy returns, Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov (aka Helen Mirren, born 26th July 1945)
