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- If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
- 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…
- I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of…
- 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.
- Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
- Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
- The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
- 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…
- You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was…
- 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.
- When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
- You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
- 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…
- 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…
- The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;…
- I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did…
- J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part.…
- Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More You Quotes
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide