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Helena Bonham Carter continuously finds herself on worst dressed lists thanks to her famously eccentric style, but in a new candid interview with her Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe for Interview magazine, she reveals some of the thought process that goes into her wacky wardrobe choices.

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"All I'm into is dressing up. I love dressing up. It's like what we do for our job, get paid to dress up. So I carry on doing it in life, and I do put on a bit of clothing, and the clothing changes how I feel," she explains.

And surprisingly, she reveals that she isn't immune to the harsh criticism she's often subjected to.

"I think I transform into somebody else, and then you see the photo and go, 'That's so not what I meant ... ' It's the disappointment after. That's why I ceased to watch myself anymore because I go, 'It's still me!'"

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Her most infamous red carpet "blunder" happened at the 2011 Golden Globes, when she made headlines pairing mismatched heels (one red, one green) with a wildly printed Vivienne Westwood gown.

She has no regrets.

"But you know, it was good because how do you do the carpet for an hour and half? So I thought, F*** it," she says. "I looked at the dress and I thought, It's not gonna be well received, so let's just distract. At least you've got some control, you know? ... F*** it is my guiding philosophy."

But it's Helena who had the last laugh -- her fashion faux pas directly led to a highly covetable gig representing Marc Jacobs that most actresses would kill for.

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"Marc said, 'Let her wear different shoes,'" she says about the Fall 2011 campaign shot by famed fashion photographer Juergen Teller. "Juergen Teller is a great photographer. He's brilliant."