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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.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Stage Actor
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Voice Actor
Hammersmith
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
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I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.
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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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[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other
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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 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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I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.
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As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
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I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
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