Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

I associate Taylor Swift with some pretty kinky stuff.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

"So you're a dom, huh? Nice." I stabbed my pancakes again. "Kinky." "You're the one who ties people up, babe."

Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

I will admit, the dominatrix look has won me over!

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

I resist change even as I call for it.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.