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Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Hammersmith
London
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
Actors
Vagabonds
Rogues
Ought

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It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'
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I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
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People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
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You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.
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I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.
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English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.
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Hollywood is a very small world the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.
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I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
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Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes through, what the issues are, the good and bad sides of war and what we're asking our military to do.
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I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
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It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
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I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.
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[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other
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I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
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Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.
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I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
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As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.
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I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
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The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which.
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The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
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