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"I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?"
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"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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"Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh."
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"When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act."
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"Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it."
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"Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes."
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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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"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."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain."
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"I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts."
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"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."
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"I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter
"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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"I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened."
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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 remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'"
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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 hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone."
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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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"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."
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"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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"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."
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"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
Quote by -Helena Bonham Carter