It’s different when you’re an actor and playing a part, but when it’s just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying. – Helena Bonham Carter
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. – 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
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she’s also a bit of a fatale. She’s the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater. – 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 part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. – Helena Bonham Carter
In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can’t help but want your own space. – 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 really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix. – Helena Bonham Carter
Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. – 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
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
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. – 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 to do it your way but of course he’s always going to choose his way. – Helena Bonham Carter
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
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
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I’ve done very few of those. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to change things for me. – 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 teeth whitened or your nose straightened. – Helena Bonham Carter
You can’t ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes. – 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
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’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 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. – Helena Bonham Carter
