Helena Bonham Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.”

“I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.”

“I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.”

“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.”

“A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.”