Helena Bonham Carter Quotes - Page 3

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Birthday, Dad, Age

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

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• Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Example, Wells, Good Examples

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• It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.

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  Pregnancy, Sleep, Night

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• 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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mother, Acting, Becoming

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• I'm a very good sleeper.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Very Good, Sleepers

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• I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, People, Luck

  Source: freshfiction.tv

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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!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• 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. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

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  Bored, Inferiority, Tire

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

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  Believe, Magic, Wicked

  "Drop dead gorgeous" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.

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• I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is now two, and be absolutely paranoid, particularly because he loves Thomas the Tank Engine, and lots of autys love Thomas. But he is not very good at pointing, and autistic children absolutely love pointing.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Children, Home, Son

  "Helena's Secret Pain". Interview with Liz Jones, www.standard.co.uk. November 16, 2005.

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• Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Long, Laughing, Scary

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• The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

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  Acting, Harder, Knows

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• I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Tourettes

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hate, Want, I Hate

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

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• I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Bird, Bigs, Wands

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Rely, I Can

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

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• But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

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  Independent, People, Joy

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• A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

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  Editors, Directors, Actors

  "Munching apples with Helena Bonham Carter". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• 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

  Nice, Taken, Grateful

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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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  Inspiration, Humor, Glasses

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11 (p. 169), November 1999.

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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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  Growing Up, Nice, Moving

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• I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

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  Use, Coke, Drink

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• I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

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  Taken, Ribs, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Scary, Fairy Tale

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