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I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
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My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been.
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My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
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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 don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.
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I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.
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There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.
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I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what maybe a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought was great.
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I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.
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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'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.
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I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
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Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
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A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.
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I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.
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Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.
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It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.
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I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.
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You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was incredible warmth and humor and generosity and wicked fun.
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