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You write your life story by the choices you make.

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
Life
Choices
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Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.
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The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
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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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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'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.
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Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.
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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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You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity.
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I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
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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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You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.
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I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
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I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
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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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With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.
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I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.
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It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.
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Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. I think people tend to get the two mixed up.
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Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
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