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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.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
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Film Director
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Hammersmith
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
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Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
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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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When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.
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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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When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.
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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 drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go.
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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 can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.
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I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.
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I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.
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I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.
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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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Any role that's proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner - I'd much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
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I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.
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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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Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
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The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
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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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