Helena Carter
Helena Carter
Helena Carterwas an American film actress in the 1940s and 1950s...
animated compared normal parts puppets
That's the thing with animated films-I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
aim begins inch lower mirror mouth
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.
appalling otherwise rather silence sleeping strange
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.
age-and-aging certain lady
England's riddled with Lady Ts. A garden-loving upper-class lady of a certain age,
agree exactly
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.
alternate bride corpse fight lady maybe puppets
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.
hair puppets rest trapped wish worry
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.
full lady work
That wasn't going to work for Lady T, who's this sympathetic and kindhearted, full of love, open, peace-loving, carrot-loving thing.
asked character ingenue puppet roles tim
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.