Helen McCrory Quotes

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.