160 Quotes by Helena Bonham Carter

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.