Helena Carter Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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