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Helena Bonham Carter

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

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

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Akiroq Brost

"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

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"I've never been one who agonizes over my work."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation."

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"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

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"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."

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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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"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."
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"The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling."
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"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."
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"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."
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"I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone."
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"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 effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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