Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.