Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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

I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

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

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

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

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.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

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

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.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

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

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.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

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

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

I'm a very good sleeper.

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

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

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

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.

Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

I do think imperfection is underrated