Helena Bonham Carter Quotes
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
"Helena Bonham Carter Talks Bellatrix, 'Potter' Future." MTV News, Viacom International, 12 Jul. 2007.
Sectarian fights had begun to break out two years before. These escalated in ferocity and soon there were some deaths. But this event of terror, torture and atrocity against a family that was not fighting changed the nature of the interreligious Irish conflict forever. The outraged Protestants organized and armed themselves and things came to a climax in September 1795 when there was an armed battle in which the Protestants killed 30 Catholics who were now calling themselves “Defenders”, with few losses. They then marched to Longhgall and there, in the home of James Sloan the Orange Order was founded and the two groups fought each other for the next 200 years.
Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe had revolted in Roman Britain. The Romans where particularly harsh in putting down revolts but under Emperor Nero and Caligula after him, they sunk to the deepest of barbarities,
Helena Bonham Carter CBE is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and large-scale blockbusters, she is the recipient of such accolades as a British Academy Film Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards, nine Golden Globes, four Primetime Emmy Awards and three British Academy Television Awards.
