Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

You need the mirror because you've got no idea where your mouth is... It begins about an inch lower than where you usually aim for. - Helena Bonham Carter

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. - Helena Bonham Carter

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

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 limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. - Helena Bonham Carter

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

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. - Helena Bonham Carter

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

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. - Helena Bonham Carter

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 get away from my own physicality. - Helena Bonham Carter

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