Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

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.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

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 our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

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

Be yourself. No one else can.

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

I always feel better after a good scream.

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 been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

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

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

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

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

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

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.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

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!

I do think imperfection's underrated.

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

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

There is no normality in life.

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.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

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

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

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

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

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

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

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

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

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

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