Famous quotes by Helena Bonham Carter:

"Corpse Bride ... The Nightmare Before Christmas."

"No, absolutely not. No, no, no. You know, [there's always] new things, too. Everyone's [wearing] skulls, and all that. But no. Nothing."

"Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices."

"He said, `I want her light, and I want her to have a purity and an innocence,' ... I analyzed the character and thought, because she was frozen in time, stuck, actually perpetually young because she was killed on the eve of her wedding, that meant a voice with a great deal of spontaneity, always so excited."

"The two are coming out so closely together, we just hope they're not going to be pitted against each other,"

"My son is going through a Daddy thing. It's always Dada, Dada, Dada. I'm like, 'What about me? Mama! I carried you around for nine months.' What did Tim do? He just had sex with me. It was all fun for Tim. All gain."

"And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you don't know, it takes about a film's length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together."

"I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word."

"Tim asked me to read his script. He wanted me to play another character and I didn't want to do it. Frankly, I didn't want to be the ingenue puppet because I did so many of those roles when I started acting."

"Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts,"

"I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person."

"I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles."

"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."

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