Helena Bonham Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

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

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

“I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.”

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

“My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.”

“Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.”

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

“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.”

“Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.”

“I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.”