Quotes By Helena Bonham Carter

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

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.

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.

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.

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

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 just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

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.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

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.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

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 don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

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.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

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.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.