Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

A lot of the things I get sent are the girlfriend or the wife or the assistant, and those are not that exciting to me.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

My wife says that if people reach conclusions as to what I am like based on what they see from me on the pitch they would say I am a guy who is always annoyed, always in a bad mood, they'd say what must it be like to live with me. There are two of me, two different people.

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.

The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.

I'm the most boring pregnant woman ever.

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

I think the one thing that I've experienced with American films is just that the size tends to be so much bigger, the budgets have been bigger, the size of the sets have been bigger, the number of people working on them is bigger, but that's not to say that I haven't been able to get close to people or develop good relationships.

I can't think of a lot of bad directors I've worked with, really.

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.

Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people's decisions, and when they're in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.

I've never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.