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Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

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
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Women
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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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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 was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.
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