#because

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

#audition #because #him #i #know

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. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #being #costume #dictated #directors

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. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bad #because #beverly #beverly hills #come

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#directors #fancy #i #just #parts

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! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #corsets #covered #face #get

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#characters #damaged #drawn #emotionally #i

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 hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #because #ears #especially #furry

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#foreign #foreign policy #human #human rights #our

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #because #dignified #down #else

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bring #disagree #equality #fundamentalist #herself