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" With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town. "
Helena Bonham Carter
Work
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Lucky
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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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" Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. 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. "
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" I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. "
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" I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art. "
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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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" Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. "
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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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" I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser! "
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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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" 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. "
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