Helen Mirren Quotes

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

I think good things happen to good people.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. But it takes religion to make good people do bad things.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.