Helena Carter Quotations

On set, I have to agree with him and do exactly what he says, but at home, it's different. There he does exactly what I say.

I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life, ... You don't have to worry about hair and make-up. You're not trapped by your envelope.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices.

Tim asked me to read his script. He wanted me to play another character and I didn't want to do it. Frankly, I didn't want to be the ingenue puppet because I did so many of those roles when I started acting.

That's the thing with animated films-I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

That wasn't going to work for Lady T, who's this sympathetic and kindhearted, full of love, open, peace-loving, carrot-loving thing.

England's riddled with Lady Ts. A garden-loving upper-class lady of a certain age,

You need the mirror because you've got no idea where your mouth is, ... It begins about an inch lower than where you usually aim for.

The two are coming out so closely together, we just hope they're not going to be pitted against each other,

There was a strange silence from him for a while, ... But that's rather nice. You need to have some objectivity sometimes. I have to be right for something, otherwise it would be appalling if I just got a part because I'm sleeping with the director.