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

Helena Bonham Carter

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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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" 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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" That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses. "

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

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

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" Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. "

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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 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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" It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it. "

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

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

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

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

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" It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice. "

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" For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want. "

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" I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control. "

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" I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser! "

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" It would be nice to really shed the corsets. "

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" I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter. "

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" Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat. "

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