Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.

Take a picture of you in a mirror or/and get somebody to take a photo of you and look back at it, it's quite a good way to figure out what suits you and looks good.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.