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I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
Helen Mirren
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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
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I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
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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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It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.
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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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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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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 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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Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
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I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.
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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 love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.
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You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a good accident or a bad accident.
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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'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.
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There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.
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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 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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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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Film is a visceral experience so I think a good war movie is a valuable tool for making us understand what our military goes through, what the issues are, the good and bad sides of war and what we're asking our military to do.
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I love that country [Israel].
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