Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I don't think I'm boring.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.