Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

• It is acting in its purest form. You have to act with your eyes.

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• You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.

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

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

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• What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

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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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• Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You’re allowed to do it your way but of course he’s always going to choose his way.

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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.

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• The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It’s mind-boggling.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

   

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

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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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• Multitasking? I can’t even do two things at once. I can’t even do one thing at once.

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• Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don’t really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don’t really have very high, cultured conversations.

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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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Helena Bonham Carter (48)

Birth:	26th May, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Helena Bonham Carter was born in London, England. She is an English actress. Her role in several films include: The Wings of the Dove(Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress), The King's Speech(Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress), Lady Jane, A Room with a View, Howards End, Terminator Salvation, Great Expectations, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dark Shadows, Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Her role in television include: Enid(TV film, won Emmy Award for Best Actress), Live from Baghdad(TV movie), Toast(TV film), Salting the Battlefield(TV film), and Love, Nina.

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