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" I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. "
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
Escaping
Who
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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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" I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring. "
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" The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you. "
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" 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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" 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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" If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. "
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" I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. "
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" Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once. "
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" Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat. "
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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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