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.
From Helena Bonham Carter
I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
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.
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.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.
I'm a very good sleeper.
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
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.
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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