Top 51 Quotes by Helen McCrory

If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of.

I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of 'Performance' called 'The Entertainer' with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!