Quotes by Helena Bonham Carter

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. (Helena Bonham Carter)

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. Its always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. (Helena Bonham Carter)

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 kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. (Helena Bonham Carter)

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring. (Helena Bonham Carter)

Im 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 its fine. I think its beautiful and a real work of art. (Helena Bonham Carter)

It didnt matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and theres a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and Ill just do the voice. (Helena Bonham Carter)

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. (Helena Bonham Carter)

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use ones normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. (Helena Bonham Carter)

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. (Helena Bonham Carter)

It would be nice to really shed the corsets. (Helena Bonham Carter)