A biography for Helena Bonham Carterhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.”
“I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.”
“The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.”
“You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.”
“With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.”
“As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.”
“I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.”
“Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?”
“I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.”
“I'm a very good sleeper.”
“I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.”
“Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.”
“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!”
“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.”
“I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.”