I Believe That If You Want To

You Know, Some Actors, All Of Their Potential Is In Their Youth, And When That Passes, Their Qualities Of As An Actor Pass. But He - Alan [rickman] Was The Opposite, And Their Are Other Actors Who Are Like That, Who, Really, Their Potential Is In Maturity.

A War Film Can Be Propaganda And They're Very Valuable As Propaganda, As We Realized In Britain In The Second World War. Film As Propaganda Is A Very Valuable Tool. It Can Also Demonize, Which Is The Dangerous Side Of A War Film As Propaganda. But There Are War Films That Are Not Propaganda. It's Just Saying 'this Is What It's Like.' For 99 Percent Of Us We Don't Know What It's Like. We Have No Idea. So To Reveal That To The Audience Is Powerful.

Women Have Got To Stop Being Polite. If I Ever Had Children, Which I Don't, The First Thing I'd Teach A Girl Of Mine Is The Words 'f - Off.'

There's No Good Way To Waste Your Time. Wasting Time Is Just Wasting Time.

I Think Of Myself As Mirren Rather Than Mironova, Absolutely. I Am A Brit, Really. I Mean When I Go To Russia And I Do Have, Maybe It's A Romantic Fantasy. You Know Us Actors, We're Very Good At Romantic Fantasies.