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" People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. "
Helen Mirren
Experience
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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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" 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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" American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that. "
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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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" I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know. "
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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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" I believe kids shouldn't be taught Shakespeare. They should experience it first by seeing a great production. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before. "
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" I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then give back. That way, they're not sitting in my wardrobe with me looking at them and feeling guilty. I love that, and I think when people have a fabulous function to go to, I'd recommend renting. "
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Me
" I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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Movies
Great
Over
" 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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Work
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" I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. "
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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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" Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. "
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" I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.' "
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" I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God. "
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" 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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" Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing. "
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" I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role. "
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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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" I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. "
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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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" My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. "
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