Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Wouldn't you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I'm a reflection of my grandmother.

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I am not because of my father, and my son Ranbir Kapoor is not because of me.

I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.