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 that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood. . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.