8:49am Wednesday 7th October 2009
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Dame Helen Mirren has denied that she feels certain film roles are beneath her.
The Oscar-winning star said that she will continue to play a variety of parts in both blockbuster and small-budget films.
"Every film has a different feeling about it, a different character in the making of it," she explained.
"Big budget films have a certain characteristic and smaller budget films have another characteristic and it's incredible fun to go from one to another. I love doing films like National Treasure, which was one of my favourite movies to do - it was fantastic - and Inkheart, which is a kids' movie, and then I can go off and do my very serious acting-y kind of things as well."
Dame Helen also revealed that her life hasn't changed much since she received film awards.
She has an array of honours to her name, including an Oscar, four Baftas, three Golden Globes, four Emmys and four Screen Actors Guild trophies for her roles in The Queen, Gosford Park and The Madness Of King George.
"It's not about love, it's about recognition - not much changes," she admitted.
The actress's prized awards are scattered between her homes in London and Los Angeles.
"Actually they're a bit spread around - I've got some in London, I've got some here (in Los Angeles) and we've just moved house," she said.
"We've been in the process of moving back into our house so actually they're all in boxes. So I'll have to break them out one of these days."
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