Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

• 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 last one.’ But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn’t necessarily equal big part.

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• 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 for the sake of it.

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• 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.

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• It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

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• 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 scheduled me so I only had to do it two nights.

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• It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one’s normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

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• 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 responsibility whatsoever.

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• 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 do the voice.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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 real work of art.

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• 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.

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

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• 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 face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

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

   

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• I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn’t think, ‘Ooh I’ve got to avoid being typecast’ – you can’t ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

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

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• 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.

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• 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 that at all. I think I’m much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

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Helena Bonham Carter (48)

Birth:	26th May, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Helena Bonham Carter was born in London, England. She is an English actress. Her role in several films include: The Wings of the Dove(Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress), The King's Speech(Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress), Lady Jane, A Room with a View, Howards End, Terminator Salvation, Great Expectations, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dark Shadows, Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Her role in television include: Enid(TV film, won Emmy Award for Best Actress), Live from Baghdad(TV movie), Toast(TV film), Salting the Battlefield(TV film), and Love, Nina.

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