Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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Helena Bonham Carter

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 26, 1966

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

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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.

Helena Bonham Carter

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

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

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It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

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I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from 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 think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

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It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

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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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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.

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

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

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No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.

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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 remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

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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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I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

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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.

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