Quotes by Helena Bonham Carter

About Helena Bonham Carter:

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress. She made her name as an actress in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses, before her film debut as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, The King's Speech, and playing Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series. She has frequently collaborated with director Tim Burton, in films Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows. In 2012, she played Miss Havisham in Great Expectations and Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables, and in 2015 the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.
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I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

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I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

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I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

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Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Helena Bonham Carter

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

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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.

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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.

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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 limi...

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

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No, I can never rely on Tim to make me pretty.

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

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

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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.

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You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

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

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I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

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

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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!

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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.

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But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameHelena Bonham Carter
  • Descriptionactress, singer
  • BornMay 26, 1966
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire