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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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

She

Bride

Sad

" You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Famous

Glasses

" 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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Fight

Think

" I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Hate

Image

" 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. "

" I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Grow Up

Young

" You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. "

" 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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Easy

You

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

" If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. "

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

" 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. "

" Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. "

" 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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Know

Strangers

" I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30. "

" My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. "

" I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything. "

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

" It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights. "

Helena Bonham Carter

Director

Mood

" With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. "