Words matter. These are the best Helena Bonham Carter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was reading William Shawcross’s biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one’s normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
I look completely like my mum. She’s very foreign, very Jewish.
With the number of people I ignore, I’m lucky I work at all in this town.
I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.
It would be nice to really shed the corsets.
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
I have to struggle to change people’s perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I’m this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I’m absolutely not like that at all. I think I’m much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
I don’t think I dress eccentrically. I’m just not conservative, I guess – I dress according to what like. And I’m not a mannequin, as you can tell.
I’m the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant’s woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
Well, at least I’m not too thin. I eat.
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
There is no normality in life.
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can’t help but want your own space.
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I’m quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
I’m a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.
I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I’m in.
Usually I’m frustrated when I look at my films and I don’t believe that I’ve made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it’s me, that I didn’t create a unique character.
I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.
Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You’re allowed to do it your way but of course he’s always going to choose his way.
I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she’s also a bit of a fatale. She’s the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
I’m always attracted to lower budget, not because it’s lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.
It took me so many years to move out. I’m definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
I’ve got Tourette’s, practically. I’ll tell anyone anything.
I was weird right from the start. It’s just that you can’t ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don’t know who you are.
Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?
I’m drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I’ve done very few of those. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to change things for me.
I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
I don’t think kids have a problem with death. It’s us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
I’m often criticised for what I wear. That’s my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
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.
When you’re up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It’s fantastic, but a lot of it you’re completely inappropriate for.
That’s the thing with animated films – I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would’ve liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn’t actually have that many scenes.
I’ve never had white teeth. To be honest, I’ve never been told to do any of those horrible things – get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.