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- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be nice to really shed the corsets.
- Frail
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Aristocratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.
- Edwardian
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exceedingly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
- Emotionally
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very good sleeper.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.
- Normality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no normality in life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
- Digestion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
- Helena
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. 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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.
- Pretend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020