Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

School, Strong, Find

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
Helena Bonham Carter

Dark, Scary, Fairy

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Few, Rest

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.
Helena Bonham Carter

Happy, Woman, Grow

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Nice, Person

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
Helena Bonham Carter

Bored, Young, Complex

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Everything, Fantastic, Oscar

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Angry, Fight, Important

I'm a very good sleeper.
Helena Bonham Carter

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!
Helena Bonham Carter

Times, Actually, Voice

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

Love, Strange, Watch

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
Helena Bonham Carter

Characters, Damaged, Drawn

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.
Helena Bonham Carter

Job, Career, Getting

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Life, Away, Rest

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Character, Greatest, Challenge

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

Sleep, Him, Asked

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
Helena Bonham Carter

Long, Laugh, Quality

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

Death, Problem, Start

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Struggle, Frustrated

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
Helena Bonham Carter

Loved, Avoid, Directors

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

Mouth, Occur, Opens

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Time, Art

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

Actor, Escaping, Ventured

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
Helena Bonham Carter

Shopping, Queen, Powerless

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.
Helena Bonham Carter

Morning, Play, Said

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Nationality: British

Born: May 26, 1966

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