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" I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me. "
Helena Bonham Carter
Me
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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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" I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter. "
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" 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. "
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" You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch. "
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" A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors. "
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" 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. "
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" You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. "
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" With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. "
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" 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. "
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Loved
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Character
" Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way. "
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Always
You
" 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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" I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life. "
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Because
Ribs
Life
" 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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Me
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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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Shopping
You
Queen
" 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. "
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" No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty. "
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" 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. "
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Grow Up
Young
Up
" 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! "
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Caffeine
Voice
" 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. "
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Mother
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Reading
" 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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" My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. "
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" Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? "
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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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" I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. "
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Me
Image
" 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. "
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" I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything. "
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Practically
Anyone
" I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Nose
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