Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

“I love changing the way I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.”

— Helena Bonham Carter

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not…

— Helena Bonham Carter

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

— Helena Bonham Carter

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you…

— Helena Bonham Carter

For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work.…

— Helena Bonham Carter

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do…

— Helena Bonham Carter

And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The…

— Helena Bonham Carter

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get…

— Helena Bonham Carter

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I…

— Helena Bonham Carter

“ I'm definitely a bit of Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up…part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever. ”

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when…

— Helena Bonham Carter

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's…

— Helena Bonham Carter

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze…

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your…

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times.…

— Helena Bonham Carter

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me.…

— Helena Bonham Carter

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I’m more comfortable with myself than when I was younger. I hated myself then. Wait, I didn’t hate myself – that’s a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think…

— Helena Bonham Carter