Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

— Helena Bonham Carter

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

— Helena Bonham Carter

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed…

— 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…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

— Helena Bonham Carter

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I…

— Helena Bonham Carter

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I had never had any experience of autism before and I would come home and look at my son, Billy, who is…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had…

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Falling in love with him was completely unexpected. When you only see someone as a friend, you don’t expect anything else. There…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

“ Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers? ”

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

— Helena Bonham Carter

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

— Helena Bonham Carter