British - Actress | May 26, 1966 -
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
Helena Bonham Carter
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A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
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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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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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When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
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Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
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Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.
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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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I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.
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I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.
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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.
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A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.
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