Helena Bonham Carter Quotes - Page 4

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• I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Thinking, Doors

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

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Buttons, Knows

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• I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Different, World

  Source: freshfiction.tv

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Hands

  "Helena Bonham Carter on Channeling Elizabeth Taylor for 'Burton and Taylor': 'I did feel something spiritual'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 15, 2013.

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Problem, Scrutiny, Printed

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Drama, People, Matter

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11, November 1999.

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Actresses, Normal

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• J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, Plot, Roles

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• I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Smell, Sound

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• I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hair, Way, Scene

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  White, Teeth, Noses

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

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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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• It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Character, Makeup, Expression

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Acting, Actors

  "Helena Bonham Carter Talks BURTON AND TAYLOR, Elizabeth Taylor vs Queen Elizabeth, Signing on to the Project, Consulting an Astrologer and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Jobs, Careers, People

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• I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Looks, Mum

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Oscars, Inappropriate, Fantastic

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

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hands, Scratches, Ears

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

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  Drama, Thinking, People

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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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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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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.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Character, Likes, Chance

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• Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Parting, Can Do

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• It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Would Be, Shed

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• Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Sleep, Auditions, Euthanasia

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