The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Interpretation
A successful marriage requires partnership and collaboration between both individuals.
Helen Mirren emphasizes that a great marriage is built on the foundation of partnership, where both partners work together, support each other, and share equal responsibility. This mutual cooperation is essential for the relationship to thrive and become truly exceptional, highlighting that love alone is not enough without a strong partnership.
In practice
At a wedding ceremony, speaking about the importance of partnership in marriage.
There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.
I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production.
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.
Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.
I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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