Despite the fact that asking for a warm pig belly for my aching feet has kind of become my new — albeit slightly-bordering-on-obnoxious — thing, I still haven’t seen Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I don’t know why. I want to, but being fairly lazy when it comes to actually going to the theater is also kind of my thing. It’s not that I don’t like to go — I do. I’m just … well, lazy about it.

Fortunately, being lazy about going to the movies doesn’t mean being lazy about keeping up with one of my favorite actresses, Helena Bonham Carter — the very one who delivered my favorite quote from the movie I’ve never seen.

Helena’s candidness about her family’s history with mental illness has earned her a lot of press lately; mostly it’s been blogs and other online media sources that’ve quoted the original March 5 Times Online article, Helena Bonham Carter on bullies, Tim Burton and Alice In Wonderland, during which the actress discusses her mother’s breakdown, her own depression and therapy, and what she dubs “healthy insanity.”

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