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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997). For her role as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film Enid (2009).

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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.

Agents, Chronically, Father, Fell, Ill, Phoned

I'm a very good sleeper.

Good, Sleeper, Sleepers, Very Good

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

Demote, Inspirational, Probably, Queens, Shopping

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

Behaved, Boring, Children, Nice

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.

Bored, Complexes, Inferiority, Tire, University

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Kids, Nearer, Older, Ones, Problem, Thinking

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.

Commodity, Everyone, Hands, Self Esteem, Thinking

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.

Age, Birthday, Dad, Incredibly, Lived, Mixture

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

Normal, Unique, Want

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

Audition, Auditions, Euthanasia, Know, Sleep

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Classic, Dark, Fairy Tale, Scary, Tales

I do think imperfection's underrated.

Imperfection, Perfection, Think, Thinking, Underrated

There is no normality in life.

Life, Normality

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!

Actually, Booze, Drink, Raise, Repressed, Voice

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

Actually, Button, Buttons, Know, Knows, People

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.

Believe, Character, Expressions, Gestures, Real

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

Completely, Foreign, Jewish, Like, Looks, Mum

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

Live, Think, Thinking, Understand

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

Ignore, Lucky, Number, Numbers, People

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Imperfection, Overrated, Perfection, Underrated

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