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

~Helena Bonham Carter

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It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

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I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

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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.

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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.

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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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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!

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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.

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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 hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actress

Born: May 26th, 1966

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