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.
It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
This industry is tough on relationships. I've always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine because I couldn't do what I do without her support.
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.
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