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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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Mother

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" When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. "

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Strangers

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

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

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

" I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. "

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

" No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty. "

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Jewish

Foreign

" The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling. "

" But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product. "

" My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act. "

" 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. "

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

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Hate

Image

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

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

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

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Terrain

Mom

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

" Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. "

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

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

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

" With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. "

" 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! "

" I'm a very good sleeper. "

" 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. "