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.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.
The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.
Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself.
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
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