Quotes By 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.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

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 expect anyone to see the final product.

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

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

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.

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

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

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

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

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.