Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

I wore the hijab - a form of dress that comprises a head scarf and usually also clothing that covers the whole body except for the face and hands - for nine years. Put more honestly, I wore the hijab for nine years and spent eight of them trying to take it off.

The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free.

Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.

If you've got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.

I love that I have no inhibitions. I like to be shameless in front of the camera.

Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.

Music was never an obligation for me; from a very young age, I understood it as a moment of freedom where you could express yourself. I realized how much joy it could bring and how much that meant to me.

Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Going braless is one's freedom.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

For me it's liberating to be able to look somebody in the eyes and know that they can't see my eyes. I've always thought that when I would see Slipknot playing.

You can wear whatever you want to wear.

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.