The Forgotten Vintage Fashion Moments of Actress Helen Mirren

March 1981

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But the years of filming movies haven’t done much to calm her stage fright, as she explained, “I’m always very insecure and nervous before I do any job. It would be so nice not to have to be nervous any more, not to have to be afraid. But the other thing you learn is that your fear and nervousness and insecurity is your own business, nobody else’s. Not because you want to be secretive about it, but because it’s impolite and self-centered to put it on other people. You should deal with it yourself. There’s a degree of arrogance: ‘I’m so nervous everyone, look at me!’”

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