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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. "
Helen Mirren
Well
Gay
Think
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" I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. "
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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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You
Ocean
" I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually. "
Helen Mirren
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Lousy
Actually
" What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be. "
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People
Money
" 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 Am
Me
Love
" 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. "
Helen Mirren
Recognition
Always
World
" I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them. "
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Learn
Generation
Great
" When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. "
Helen Mirren
Thank God
God
People
" I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV! "
Helen Mirren
Hard Work
Good
Believe
" There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down. "
Helen Mirren
Sexy
Uncomfortable
Doing
" Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child. "
Helen Mirren
Mother
People
Father
" You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that. "
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See
People
Other
" People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. "
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Experience
Weird
Human
" I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world. "
Helen Mirren
Flower
Flowers
I Am
" 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. "
Helen Mirren
Never
Economics
Intention
" When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people. "
Helen Mirren
Table
People
Acting
" 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
Time
Age
Believe
" I love photography, and I love the art of photography. "
Helen Mirren
Art
I Love
Love
" 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. "
Helen Mirren
Live
Life
Change
" I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile. "
Helen Mirren
Time
Good
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" Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude. "
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Sexy
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" I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system. "
Helen Mirren
Think
See
Myself
" Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?' "
Helen Mirren
Today
Daily
Know
" 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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You
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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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Great
Art
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" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "
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Fun
You
Learning
" There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. "
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Relationship
Moment
Day
" The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn't know which was which. "
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Walking
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Two
" I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. "
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Kind
Never
Star
" Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. "
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Ought
Rogues