Article: Fish tales: in Tim Burton's latest adventure, Big Fish, a dad weaves tall tales to win the love of his family and friends. Here, Interview asks some of the film's cast about their own flights of fancy.(Whopper Special)

HELENA BONHAM CARTER

"The only tall tale I'll admit to telling was when I was at school, aged 10 (actually, that's a bit of a tall tale--I was 16, and should have known better by then). To get out of an English-literature exam I soooo did not want to take, I told my teacher I'd fainted on the subway on the way to school. Principally because I had a naturally tubercular hue to my complexion (and have always had, for that matter), it worked a treat. I was sent home. An addendum: The same teacher, when I shared with him my ambition to become an actress, pointed out that the Greek for actor is hypocrites--the same word for liar."

DANNY DEVITO

"Oh, ...

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