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I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.Collection: Helen
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.Collection: Helen
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.Collection: Helen
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.Collection: Helen
American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.Collection: Helen
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.Collection: Helen
When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.Collection: Helen
I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.Collection: Helen
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.Collection: Helen
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's 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.Collection: Helen
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.Collection: Helen
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.Collection: Helen
Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.Collection: Helen
I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!Collection: Helen
Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.Collection: Helen
I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.Collection: Helen
I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.Collection: Helen
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.Collection: Helen
I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.Collection: Helen
I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.Collection: Helen
What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.Collection: Helen
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'Collection: Helen
I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting.Collection: Helen
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'Collection: Helen
I can't say 'no' to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'Collection: Helen
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.Collection: Helen
The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press.Collection: Helen
My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been.Collection: Helen
When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.Collection: Helen
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.Collection: Helen
When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.Collection: Helen
At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.Collection: Helen
I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.Collection: Helen
I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.Collection: Helen
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.Collection: Helen
People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.Collection: Helen
Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.Collection: Helen
Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'Collection: Helen
The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.Collection: Helen
I'm 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.Collection: Helen
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.Collection: Helen
I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.Collection: Helen
I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.Collection: Helen
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.Collection: Helen
I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.Collection: Helen
College isn't the place to go for ideas.Collection: Helen
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.Collection: Helen
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.Collection: Helen