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.
People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
What makes something better is connection.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
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