Helen Mirren Quotes

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Helen Mirren

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 26, 1945

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.

Helen Mirren

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Helen Mirren

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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It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

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I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

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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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All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

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Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

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

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I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

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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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Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

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The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

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It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

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It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

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I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

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The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

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They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.

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I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

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I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

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