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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. "
Helena Bonham Carter
Strangers
Feel
You
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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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" I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes. "
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" I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. "
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" 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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" I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. "
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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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" I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything. "
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" My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. "
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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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" It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. "
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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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" 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 don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession. "
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" Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go. "
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" I'm a very good sleeper. "
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" 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. "
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" I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. "
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" I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. "
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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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