Quotes from Helena Bonham Carter

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

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

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!

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

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.

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

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

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

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

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.

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.

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

I'm a very good sleeper.

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

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

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

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

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

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

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.

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

A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and then it's over - but to see the same people over all that time, a decade, makes you feel really safe and secure.

I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.

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