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" She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Right

Looks

Death

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Normality

Life

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Grow

Responsibility

" I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in. "

" A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors. "

" 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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Young

Bored

" 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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Strong

Find

" Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. "

" I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. "

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Loved

Character

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Grow Up

Young

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Problem

Older

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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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Famous

Glasses

" 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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Easy

You