Feel Quotes

I'm a very good sleeper.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Good Very

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Me Who Kind

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Love I Love Magic

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You Me Because

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Me Want Everyone

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Time Far Goes

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Mom Up Been

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You Go Myself

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Work People Number

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Like Very Those

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Me Think Just

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: People Other Own

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You Very Want

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

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You About Life

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Sad Had Way

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Been Even Actually

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: Age Dad Being

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

Tags: You Your Use

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You Like Really

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You People Think

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

Tags: Me Just Because

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's 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

Tags: Famous People Me

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

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People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: People Me About

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

Tags: Work You People

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

Tags: You Just Up