Helen Mirren movie quotes

“Nothing's ever really dead if you look at it right.”
Helen Mirren - Brigitte

“Many nights we've prayed, with no proof anyone could hear. In our hearts a hopeful song we barely understood. Now we are not afraid, although we know there's much to fear. We were moving mountains, long before we knew we could...”

Sandra Bullock - Miriam
Helen Mirren

“- Jeff: I wanna lick every inch of you...
- Victoria: Saved by the bell. Goodnight.”

Derek Thompson - Jeff
Helen Mirren - Victoria

“It's important to enjoy life while you still can.”
Helen Mirren - Victoria

“- Lunkwill: Do you...
- Deep Thought: Have an answer for you? Yes. But you're not going to like it.
- Fook: Please tell us. We must know!
- Deep Thought: Okay. The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is...
[wild cheers from audience, then silence]
- Deep Thought: 42.”
Jack Stanley - Lunkwill
Helen Mirren - Deep Thought

“My sister finally moves in with me. The problem is, she finally decides to do it when she's dead.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“Unlike Lot's wife, I never looked back.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“- Maria: I’ve finally returned to my quiet little life and begun to make peace with it.
- Randy: Say that again with conviction.
- Maria: Don’t be impertinent.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann
Ryan Reynolds - Randol Schoenberg

“- Hedda Hopper: Drinking alone?
- Dalton Trumbo: Preferably.
- Hedda Hopper: And what are you up to these days?
- Dalton Trumbo: You know, Hedda, another one of these and I just might tell you.
- Hedda Hopper: Oh, then I'm buying.”
Helen Mirren - Hedda Hopper
Bryan Cranston - Dalton Trumbo

“It's my job to make great students greater, not make mediocre students less mediocre.”
Helen Mirren - Dean Hardscrabble

Your work, Mr. Churner, is very reminiscent of a young man who sat in that same chair some 20 years ago. He, too, had the words "No future" printed on his forehead. Do give your father my best.

Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle

“Don't treat me like one of your thugs!”

Helen Mirren - Victoria

“People forget, especially the young.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“I don't know if I have the strength to deal with these people, and I've only been here a day.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“- George III: Good evening, Mrs. King.
- Queen Charlotte: Good evening, Mr. King.”
Nigel Hawthorne - George III
Helen Mirren - Queen Charlotte

“Luke's a man, Jo Lynn. He'll always pursue that which is unobtainable. It's in his nature.”
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle

“- MI6 ChiefSecurity Officer: They say you're a legend around here. I've, um... I've never heard of you. Must have been a bit before my time.
- Victoria: Well, you've heard of me now.”
Eric Davis - MI6 Chief Security Officer
Helen Mirren - Victoria

“- Randol Schoenberg: It's hard to believe Hitler once applied to be an art studenthere.
- Maria Altmann: I wish they'd have accepted him.”
Ryan Reynolds - Randol Schoenberg
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“Selling love will make you rich. That's what my mother taught me. Just don't put your heart in it.”
Helen Mirren - Grace Bontempo

“- Gustav Bloch-Bauer: And now... as you go... I ask you only one thing... my liebling.
- Young Maria Altmann: What is it, papa?
- Gustav Bloch-Bauer: Remember us.”
Allan Corduner - Gustav Bloch-Bauer
Helen Mirren - Young Maria Altmann

“- Hedda Hopper: Now what do you do when you love something but it stops loving you back?
- Louis B. Mayer: You fight.
- Hedda Hopper: No, no, no. You love it more until it surrenders.”
Helen Mirren - Hedda Hopper
Richard Portnow - Louis B. Mayer

“- Alfred Hitchcock: I'm under extraordinary pressures on this picture and the least you can do is give me your full support.
- Alma Reville: Full support! We've mortgaged our house! I'm your wife! I celebrate with you when the reviews are good. I cry for you when they are bad! I put up with all those people who look through me as if I were...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren - Alma Reville

“Every time your friend runs for re-election or conducts a hearing, you drop his name to me until we give him some coverage... but he finally does something that actually might sell some newspapers, you render mute. It's, it's - incongruous!”

Helen Mirren - Cameron Lynne

“If life is a race, you beat me to the finish. But if life is a boxing match, I'm the last one standing.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“The role of savior does not suit mediocrity.”
Helen Mirren - Mrs. Tingle