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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
Ought
Actors
Vagabonds
Rogues

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I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
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I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
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I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.
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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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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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I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.
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I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
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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.
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I love that country [Israel].
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The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
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I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'
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The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.
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