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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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" 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

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

" I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. "

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Hate

Image

" I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe. "

" I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me. "

" 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. "

" It would be nice to really shed the corsets. "

" I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Unlock

Drawn

" Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. "

" Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? "

" 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

" I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Jewish

Foreign

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Famous

Glasses

" 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 think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. "

" Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. "

" 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 was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. "

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

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Things

Just