A biography for Helena Bonham Carterhasn’t been written yet.
“Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.”
“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 corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!”
“Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.”
“That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.”
“I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.”
“I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.”
“My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.”
“Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. 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.”
“My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.”
“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.”
“I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.”
“In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.”
“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.”
“It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really bad mood but luckily, because I sleep with the director, he just sort of scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.”
“I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.”
“No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.”
“I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.”