Helena Bonham Carter Quotations

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.

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

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'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

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

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.

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.

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.