Helena Quotes
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.
Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
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.
People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress coolly or disastrously. It’s whatever.
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
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.
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 find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.
Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.
Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!
I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.
The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.
She's my sun and I'm her moon connected by an invisible thread, bound but free.
People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.
Is that-am I looking at her beaver?"Mid-swig, I choke on the mouthful of beer, sputtering and coughing. After I recover, I ask jokingly, "'Beaver'? Are you Canadian or something?
Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.
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.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
