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" I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. "

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Helena Bonham Carter

People

Know

You

" I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. "

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Things

Just

" A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors. "

" 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! "

" Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. "

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

" 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

" Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat. "

" It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. "

" 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

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

" I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes. "

" I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened. "

" 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. "

" I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Grow Up

Young

" I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell. "

" My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Terrain

Mom

" 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

" The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do. "

" I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Problem

Older

" In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space. "

" 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. "

" My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. "

" I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter. "

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

" I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything. "

" Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. "

" All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. "

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