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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.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
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I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.
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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 think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'
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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.
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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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I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'
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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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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.
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I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.
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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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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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