Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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• I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

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  Life, Dream, Art

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• Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

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  Unique, Want, Normal

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• Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

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  Trust, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

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  Perfection, Imperfection, Overrated

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• 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.

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  Suits You, Looks, Matter

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• Be yourself. No one else can.

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  Being Yourself

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

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  People, Dresses, Lists

  "Helena Bonham Carter unworried by Oscars after Bafta success" by Dean Piper, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2011.

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• I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

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  Thinking

  "'It's All Gone Widescreen'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 03, 2006.

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• I always feel better after a good scream.

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  Feel Better, Scream, Feels

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• Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

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  Falling In Love, Unexpected, Moments

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• It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

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  Age, Being A Woman, Grows

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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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.

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  Lying, Giving, Advice

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• There is no normality in life.

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  Normality

  "It's all gone widescreen" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. 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, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.

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  Suits You, Self, Years

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking

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• I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

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  Reality, People, Pretending

  "It's all gone widescreen". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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• The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They'll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you've been to the Oscars!

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  Morning, Real, Kids

  "Oscars 2011 Helena Bonham Carter interview: On being 'fart buddies' with Colin Firth". Interview with Mirror.Co.Uk, www.mirror.co.uk. February 27, 2011.

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• I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

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  Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Kids, Thinking, Problem

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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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  Two, Multitasking, Multi Tasking

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

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  Thinking, Mouths

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• Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

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  Dirty, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

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  Crazy, Clothes, People

  "The King's Speech - Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

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  Cute, Wall, Kissing

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• Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.

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  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Helena Bonham Carter: Why I Break All the Fashion Rules" by Paul Chi, people.com. January 26, 2011.

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