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" I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring. "
Helena Bonham Carter
Very
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Nice
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" I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are. "
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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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" 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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" There is no normality in life. "
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" I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. "
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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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" I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. "
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" No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty. "
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" My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. "
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" Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it. "
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