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" My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. "
Helena Bonham Carter
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Been
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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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" 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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" 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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" When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for. "
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" I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. "
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" You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch. "
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" Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know? "
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" Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. "
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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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" Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. "
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" I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. "
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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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" If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. "
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