I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.
— Helena Bonham Carter
I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.
I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.
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've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
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.
My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.
Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.
I'm a very good sleeper.
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'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
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.
I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.
I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want.
I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.
Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.
I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.
It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.
You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it.
I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
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.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
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'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.
Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.
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.
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.
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.
There is no normality in life.
I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.
I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
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.
When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
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.
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.
