I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

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

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

I'm a very good sleeper.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.