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" As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out. "

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" I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Growing

Being

Born

" You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch. "

" That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses. "

" I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Hate

Image

" I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. "

" The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you. "

" The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling. "

" It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Easy

You

" I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring. "

" People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Some People

People

" Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. "

" I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. "

" I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. "

" It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying. "

" What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Loved

Character

" J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part. "

" I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! "

" People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could. "

Helena Bonham Carter

You

Rest

" It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Director

Mood

" Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. "

" I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Strong

Find

" You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. "

" I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. "

" I'm a very good sleeper. "

" Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once. "

" I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Think

Children

" I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Things

Just

" When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. "

" Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. "

" I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in. "