Helena Bonham Carter

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

“It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect f...”

“I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a r...”

“I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the ki...”

“I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.”

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

“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.”

“There is no normality in life.”

“It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any resp...”

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

“J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the...”

“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'm a very good sleeper.”

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

“My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.”

“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.”

“People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding...”

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