Helena Bonham Carter

“I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like...”

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

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

“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 schedu...”

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

“Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glas...”

“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!”

“It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just...”

“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.”

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

“My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.”

“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...”

“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...”

“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 compl...”

“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...”

“What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to g...”

“I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.”

“It would be nice to really shed the corsets.”

“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 fa...”

“Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.”