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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. "

Helena Bonham Carter

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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 think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me. "

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

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" I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish. "

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

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" J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part. "

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