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I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
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Hammersmith
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
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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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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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I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.
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When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.
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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 always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.
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It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.
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I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
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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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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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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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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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I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.
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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 never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.
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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 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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In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.
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I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
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