Helen Mirren “The poor Oscars – they always get slammed in the press.” -Helen Mirren “The poor Oscars – they always get slammed in the press.” -Helen Mirren Related Quotes “I always love working with young actors, because there’s always something to learn. It’s always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what’s great about them and what’s not so great about them.” -Helen Mirren “The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” -Warren Buffett “I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.” -Zig Ziglar “The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It’s a world that needs women.” -Helen Mirren “I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don’t think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.” -Helen Mirren “I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” -Robert Louis Stevenson “Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.” -Robert Louis Stevenson “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” -Jack London “Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” -Helen Mirren