“The Queen always appears to be looking AT the world. She’s objective and steady. She isn’t repressed or neurotic. There’s a sense of humor. But she remains a mystery. And I think it comes from living a life nobody can ever comprehend. Remember, she has never drawn her own bath, never stood on line in a shop. Her husband walks two paces behind her in public. It’s a world we just can’t fathom, and there’s no escape from it, for her. So I’ve thought of her weirdly as the captain of a submarine looking at at the world through a periscope. She takes us in. And then – dive, dive, dive!” – Helen Mirren, currently playing Her Majesty in The Audience in London’s West End. (via Vanity Fair)