Helena Bonham Carter movie quotes

“I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!”
Helena Bonham Carter

“- Ari: Maybe we're not so different.
- Captain Leo Davidson: No, we're very different. You care about everybody, but yourself.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Ari
Mark Wahlberg - Captain Leo Davidson

“You kill him, and you'll only lower yourself to his level.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Ari

“- Victor Van Dort: I am terribly sorry about what's happened to you and I would like to help. But I really need to get home.
- Corpse Bride: This is your home now.”
Johnny Depp - Victor Van Dort
Helena Bonham Carter - Corpse Bride

“- Queen Elizabeth: My husband is required to speak publicly.
- Lionel Logue: Perhaps he should change jobs.
- Queen Elizabeth: He can't.
- Lionel Logue: Indentured servitude?
- Queen Elizabeth: Something of that nature, yes.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Queen Elizabeth
Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue

“- Corpse Bride: We need to go up. Upstairs? To visit the land of the living.
- Elder Gutknecht: Land of the living? Oh, my dear.
- Corpse Bride: Please, Elder Gutknecht.
- Elder Gutknecht: Now, why go up there when people are dying to get down here?”
Helena Bonham Carter - Corpse Bride
Michael Gough - Elder Gutknecht

“- Mrs. Lovett: His name was Benjamin Barker.
- Sweeney Todd: What was his crime?
- Mrs. Lovett: Foolishness.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Mrs. Lovett
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

“Every time she smiles, remember that I love you more.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Kate Croy

“- Merton: You want me to seduce a dying girl? And what makes you think she'll just leave me all her money?
- Kate Croy: I know her. I know how she loves.”
Linus Roache - Merton
Helena Bonham Carter - Kate Croy

“Promise me, on your honor, that you're not in love with her memory.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Kate Croy

“- Ari: I'd like to see your world.
- Captain Leo Davidson: I know. But they'd probably pry you and poke you and throw you in a cage too.
- Ari: You'd protect me.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Ari
Mark Wahlberg - Captain Leo Davidson

- Charlotte Bartlett: This is not at all what we were led to expect.
- Lucy Honeychurch: I thought we were going to see the Arno.
- Charlotte Bartlett: The signora distinctly wrote "South rooms, with a view and close together", instead of which she has given us North rooms without a view and a long way apart.
Maggie Smith - Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge

“This isn't a real suicide-thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Marla Singer

“- Charlotte Bartlett: I shall never forgive myself.
- Lucy Honeychurch: You always say that, Charlotte, but you always do forgive yourself.”
Maggie Smith - Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge

“I loved a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Jenny - Young

“- Ed Bloom - Young: Your last name is different. You married.
- Jenny - Young: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young
Helena Bonham Carter - Jenny - Young

“- Cecil Vyse: You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you're right not to, but... it would help a little, hurt a little less, if I knew why.
- Lucy Honeychurch: Because you're the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge

“I've spent so long in the darkness, I'd almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Corpse Bride

“- Victor Van Dort: I made a promise.
- Corpse Bride: You kept your promise. You set me free. Now I can do the same for you.”
Johnny Depp - Victor Van Dort
Helena Bonham Carter - Corpse Bride

“You're sensitive. An uncommon quality in a man.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Ari

“- Lucy Honeychurch: Mother is calling, I have got to go. They trust me.
- Mr. Emerson: Why should they, when you deceived everyone, including yourself?”
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge
Denholm Elliott - Mr Emerson, an English tourist

“We're not odd, we're just over-expressive.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Helen Schlegel

“Do you want the child to stop with his father who loves him but will bring him up badly, or do you want him to come to Salston, where no-one loves him but he will be brought up well?”
Helena Bonham Carter - Caroline Abbott