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Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

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Helena Bonham Carter
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 26
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
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I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
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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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I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!
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I do think imperfection's underrated.
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If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
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Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts
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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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I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.
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I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
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I'm a very good sleeper.
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I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.
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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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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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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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I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
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Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.
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Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
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Be yourself. No one else can.
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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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I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.
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