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  • Actress
  • born 1966
  • 129 quotes

Helena Bonham Carter, an actress (born 1966), is quoted 129 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are People, Thinking, Nice and Imperfection.

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I'm a very good sleeper.

Be yourself. No one else can.

There is no normality in life.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

I always feel better after a good scream.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

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

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

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

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

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

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

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

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

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

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

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

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

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

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

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

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

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

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

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

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

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

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