Top 51 Quotes by Helen McCrory

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 really love my food. My favourite thing is artichokes. I am not so much interested in desserts or chocolate, though. I also like to cook with my husband Damian.

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.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

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

I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?