Explore Quotes by Helen Mccrory

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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