10 Actors Who Clearly Didn't Learn Anything From Past Mistakes

10. Helena Bonham Carter

This choice may seem a tad counter-intuitive, as since Bonham Carter's filmography is not littered with bomb after bomb, or even all that many mistakes, but it's difficult to deny that a little too much self-parody has slowly crept into the actresses' work. Similar to her frequent co-star, Johnny Depp, she frequently offers little more than whimsy, pounds and pounds of make-up, and flamboyant, bizarre hairstyles. Her professional choices haven't really been to her detriment, but they have begun to feel a little tired. Much of this can be attributed to her professional and romantic partnership with Tim Burton. One can almost see their domestic exchanges, with Burton running into her home (the pair live next door to each other) with a wild gleam in his eye. Their freakish hair styles battling for supremacy, Burton would then exclaim, "I'm going to make you a sexy ape! I'm going to make you a one-eyed witch! Did you ever want to play Mrs. Bucket? Well, now you can!" On the surface this seems innocent enough; Carter's various Burton roles even seem pretty diverse, but what unites them all is the percolating sense of whimsy, a quality that after seven "quirky" collaborations with Burton has perhaps gotten a little stale. What's even more disconcerting for the actress is how this quirky proclivity has spread to her non-Burton films, something seen with her parts in Les Miserables, The Harry Potter Franchise, Great Expectations and The Lone Ranger. These roles indicate that Bonham Carter can obviously play crazy and off-kilter characters. Yet, they also suggest that she maybe has forgotten about striking a balance with her work, only refuting this periodically with something like The King's Speech.