Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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Helena Bonham Carter

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 26, 1966

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

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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.

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My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

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I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

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

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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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There is no normality in life.

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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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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.

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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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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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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'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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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

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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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People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

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I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

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Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

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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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You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

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