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" Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? "
Helena Bonham Carter
You
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" I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. "
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" It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. "
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" I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. "
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" My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. "
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" I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. "
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" I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. "
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" She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater. "
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" A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure. "
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" Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go. "
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" 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. "
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" It would be nice to really shed the corsets. "
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" 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. "
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" In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space. "
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" Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?' "
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" My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. "
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" If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. "
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" 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. "
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" The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you. "
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" Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. "
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" I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe. "
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" 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. "
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