Helena Quotes

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

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

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

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.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

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

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

There is no normality in life.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

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

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

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

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

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

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

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

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

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

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

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

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

Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

I can't help from making money, that is all.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

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

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