Kate Winslet Quotes:

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

source: - "Kate Winslet's Emmy Acceptance Speech: You Never Stop Needing Your Mom!" By Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. September 19, 2011.

Topics: Mom, Matter, Your Mom, Mother Child

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

Topics: Inspiring, Mother, Children, Body Image, Mia

There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

Topics: Mother, Empowering, Wonderful

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Kate, Successful Business

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Topics: Dream, Peace, Passion, Rumble

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

Topics: Body, Body Image, Accepting

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Moving On, Moving, Loving Someone, Forward In Life, Inspirational Moving On

Acting is about being real, being honest.

Topics: Real, Acting, Honest, Kate, Breast Implants

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

Topics: Careers, Actors, Growing, Learning And Growing

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

Topics: Crazy, Live Life, Mean

I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city ,and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

Topics: Nice, Thinking, High Heels, Kate, Wandering Around

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

Topics: Home, Moments, Enjoy, Knickers

There's more to life than cheek bones.

Topics: Bones, More To Life

I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

Topics: Nice, Way, Taste

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.

Topics: Children, World, Picnics, Grocery Stores, Family Gathering

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

Topics: Children, Kids, Doe

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

Topics: Children, People, Community, Gated Communities, Shocked

I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

Topics: Thinking, Loathing, Kind

Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.

Topics: School, Guy, Fake

I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

Topics: Believe, Dresses, Rehearsal, Holding Back

When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

Topics: Smart, Thinking, People, Smart Choices

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Topics: Mean, Mail, Computer

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

Topics: Children, Drama, School

I look like people that walk down the street. I don't have perfect boobs, I don't have zero cellulite - of course I don't - and I'm curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that's great.

Topics: Zero, Perfect, People, Cellulite

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

Topics: Hate, Wish, Body, Body Image

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

Topics: Mom, Children, Perspective, Inspirational Mothers, Having Children

You know, I never felt like I was young at the time and obviosly having Mia was absolutely planned. It's only know when I meet people who are my age and single, [with] no kids, that I reflect and say, 'Bloody hell? I really have leaved at a fast pace.'

Topics: Mom, Kids, People, Mia

I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

Topics: Girl, Daughter, Sorry, Fat Girl, Mia

I'd like to grow old with my face moving.

Topics: Moving, Faces, Grows

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

Topics: Lonely, Kids, Mia

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Topics: Winning, Losing, Lost

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.

Topics: Careers, Challenges, Roles

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

Topics: Moving, Proud, Oscars

My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

Topics: Stars, Responsibility, Thinking, Julia

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

Topics: Acquaintance, Honestly

I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, 'And you're getting the tube?' And I said, 'Yes'. And she said, 'Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, 'No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.

Topics: Girl, Car, Driven, Big Cars, This Girl

I just look better in simple black things.

Topics: Simple, Black, Looks

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

Topics: Beautiful, Struggle, Choices

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

Topics: Trying, Knows, Asks

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Topics: Mean, Shapes, Size

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

source: - "The Clive James Show", 1998.

Topics: Regret, Backwards, Believer

Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

Topics: Too Much, Knocked Down, Fats

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

source: - Source: www.mtv.com

Topics: Thinking, Stories, Reckless, Reckless Abandon

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

Topics: Regret, Decision, Life Is, Happening For A Reason

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

source: - Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Topics: Insecurity

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

source: - "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

Topics: Change, People, Form

I hope I'm always learning something.

source: - Interview to V Magazine, September, 2011.

Topics: Always Learning

I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.

Topics: Believe, Struggle, Life Is Short

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

Topics: Sake, Leading Ladies, Supposed To Be

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Goal, Want, Actresses

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'.

Topics: Love You, Kissing, Want, Love You So Much, I Love You So Much

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Character, Play, Challenges

The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

Topics: Beautiful, Believe, Awards

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Believe, Commitment, Life Is

More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control.

Topics: Beautiful, Daughter, Growing Up, Our Daughter

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

Topics: Running, Morning, School, Packing

I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

Topics: Thinking, Cooking, Chopping

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

Topics: Trying, Failing, Ifs

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

Topics: Brain, Pregnant

I'm not a period babe. Not at all.

Topics: Babe, Periods

Since I was 13 or 14, I've always felt older than I actually am.

Topics: Felt

I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

source: - "'Labor Day' Star Kate Winslet on Defying Expectations, Onscreen and Off (Q&A)" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2013.

Topics: Lovely, Mountain, Looks

Having just had a baby, I'm not going to be thinking about my arse.

source: - "Kate Winslet opens up to GLAMOUR about motherhood". Interview with Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. January 2, 2014.

Topics: Baby, Thinking, Arses

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

source: - "Kate Winslet’s Vogue Cover Is Unbelievable — Literally" By Lauren Leibowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

Topics: Desire, Looks, Retouching

I am incredibly passionate about my life, I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I'd have to call it 'P is for Passion'. I don't go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.

Topics: Book, Passion, Heart

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

source: - "Isn't She Deneuvely?". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. December 2008.

Topics: People, Judging, Judgment

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

source: - "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

Topics: Character, Looks, Red, Red Carpet

I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.

source: - "Grazia pays damages to Winslet" by Ben Dowell, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2007.

Topics: Real, Believe, Curves, Womanly

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

Topics: Thinking, Hot, Way

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

source: - "Fictional character: Rose Dewitt Bukater". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. 1997.

Topics: Trust, Docks, Titanic Movie

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Challenges, Acting, Yeah

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

source: - "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

Topics: Kids, Race, Lists

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

source: - "Acting Out" by Megan Deem, www.elle.com. September 15, 2007.

Topics: Believe, Awful, Actresses

I'm really happy in my own skin. There's a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less. 'I would sometimes say in my twenties, 'oh, I couldn't care less', but I think I probably did. Now I genuinely don't and that's a lovely, liberating thing to experience.

Topics: Eye, Thinking, Media

As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire life. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses. But at a certain point, when you achieve a lot of your goals and you can be proud of your work, you start to relax more about who you are. And that includes your appearance and self-image - I don't think I look too bad for a mother of two. But women shouldn't have to feel the pressure to compare themselves to actresses or models.

Topics: Girl, Mother, Thinking

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

source: - Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Topics: Children, Thinking, Soul, Acts Of Violence

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

source: - Interview to Marie Claire magazine, April, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, People, Important, Magazine Covers

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

source: - Source: www.mtv.com

Topics: Character, Thinking, Circumstances

I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'

source: - "Kate Winslet Forms ‘British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League’" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

Topics: Wrinkles, Guy, Looks

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

source: - "Alanis Morissette, Kate Winslet Reveal Slim-Down Secrets". Elle Magazine, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2009.

Topics: Believe, Chocolate, Stuff, Body Image

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

Topics: Insecure, Ask Me, Asks

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

Topics: Husband, Jealous, Way

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

source: - "Fictional character: Madeleine". "Quills", www.imdb.com. 2000.

Topics: Madness, Quills

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

Topics: Children

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Tabloids, Opera, Stuff, Soap Operas

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

source: - Song: What If

Topics: Heart, Joy, Ache, Heart Ache

For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.

source: - "Kate Winslet's Unusual Baby Name Revealed". Interview with Erin Hill, parade.com. December 23, 2013.

Topics: Running, Children, School

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

source: - "Kate Winslet: Uncommon Sense". movieline.com. January 1, 1996.

Topics: Moving, Usa, Roles, Small Roles, British Film

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

Topics: Sexy, Teens, Fancy

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Growing Up, Dad, Anxiety

That's the main reason I took it up But I do feel I don’t know part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

source: - "Kate Winslet Opens Up About Divorce From Sam Mendes In British Vogue" By Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Needs

I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then". And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days.

source: - "Kate Winslet says her acting 'could've been better' in 'Titanic'", www.mtv.com. March 28, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, Looks, Way

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Looks, Actors, Actresses, Actors And Actresses

My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

source: - Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Topics: Dream, Children, Dad, Older Sister, Backup Plan

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Children, Mind, Stopping

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

Topics: Character, Thinking, Passionate

I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

source: - "Kate Winslet admits to hating kisses with co-star Leonardo Di Caprio". www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2008.

Topics: Workout, Home, Dvds, Body Image

He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.

Topics: Beautiful, Men, Thinking, Smelly

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

Topics: Stars, Order, Facts

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

Topics: Girl, Ideas, Anorexia

I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

Topics: Crush

I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

Topics: Kids, Two, Desire, Desire To Change

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

source: - "Kate Winslet Opens Up About Divorce From Sam Mendes In British Vogue" By Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

Topics: Intuition, Needs, Done

I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.

source: - "Kate Winslet is ‘still haunted’ by nude Titanic scene". closeronline.co.uk. April 4, 2014.

Topics: Inspiring, Beauty, Baby, Inspirational Body, Beautiful Body

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

Topics: Machines, Faces, Realizing

Everybody asks me this, whether I'm slightly annoyed that I didn't get to kiss Johnny Depp. We would have laughed.

source: - "Johnny Depp just has 'a weird job'". www.today.com. October 18, 2004.

Topics: Kissing, Annoyed, Ask Me

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

Topics: Sex, Mean, Government

I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin - a wig - because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough.

source: - "Kate's pubic wig!". Allure interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 4, 2009.

Topics: Girl, Hair, Years, Waxing

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

Topics: Sister, House, Parent, Funny Sister

At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.

Topics: Stopping, Stage, Bits

I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Chickens, Cooks, Our Lives

I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

source: - "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

Topics: Mean, Dresses, Now Or Never

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

Topics: Mother, Issues, Lessons

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

source: - Interview with Tarek Hijazi, www.askmen.com.

Topics: Giving, Cooks

He's brilliant. At first, I thought, 'Oh, is he going to be Hollywood stud-like?' But he's a really kind, wonderful person. He said to me one day early in the making of the movie, 'You know, I was kind of worried about you'. He thought I was going to be a perfect skin, which I am certainly not. It didn't take long for Leo to crack and see who I really am, and we became very close. but, I must say, he is absolutely gorgeous.

Topics: Long, Perfect, Skins, Studs, Wonderful Person

I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

Topics: Baby, Pain, People, Body Image

With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Wine, Thinking, Ideas, Drowsy

es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Reading, House, Hollywood

I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Emotional, Thinking, Important, Tics

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me the other day and says, ‘One day, I will have a girlfriend. But I might have a boyfriend. If I’m gay.’ He’s 7! And I said, ‘You might have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, darling.’ And he said, ‘Which would you prefer?’ And I said, ‘My love, that would be entirely up to you, and it doesn’t make any difference to me.’ But that he knows! It’s a real privilege. Talk about the best education.

Topics: Girlfriend, Children, Real

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

source: - "'I did have moments where I'd say, Oh my God ...'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2008.

Topics: Beautiful, Dream, Jobs, Positive Person, Emotional Expression

I'm incredibly proud to have been nominated in the past and it really means a lot to me because I do work very hard when I'm making a film and I do really do absolutely give my all. To get that kind of pat on the back, it's really amazing and also never something that I anticipated would possibly happen to me, ever. So I am very, very proud to have been there before. And, you know, the nice thing about nominations is that, same as awards, no one can actually take them away from you and I'm proud of that.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Nice, Mean, Past, Nice Things, Really Amazing

I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate with them, to hear them learn, grow, and express themselves verbally. How fortunate, how blessed I am. This overwhelmed me. I can talk to my children, I can respond to their needs and comfort them when they tell me they are unwell. I can tell them stories and hear them tell theirs.

source: - Kate Winslet, Margret Ericsdottir (2012). “The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Children, Blessed, Voice

I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you're always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I've never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.

source: - "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

Topics: Teenager, Insecure, Thinking, Being Fat

Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Character, Emotional, Feet, Staging

It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Dog, Jobs, Fun, Red Carpet

I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Jobs, Reading, Divorce

A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.

Topics: Eye, Dark, Circles

People say to me, 'You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films'. In reality, I haven't. After each movie, I always think, 'how different can I possibly be? Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?'

Topics: Jobs, Independent, Reality

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

source: - Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Topics: Actresses, Inspired, Toolbox

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Topics: Children, Stupid, Kids, Grounding

But I really can't and I actually don't like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I'm going to dream about it, because then I don't have to put it down.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Dream, Fall, Worry, Switching Off

There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such a team, nothing could break us, nothing could come near us.

Topics: Team, Rocks, Break

For me, they definitely made it more challenging. The comfort zone factor really kicked in between Leo and I, and I just think that's because we know each other so well. We've known each other since we were 20-years-old.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Thinking, Years, Challenges

The assistant asked, `What do you want on it?' and Leo said, `Oh, Kate will tell you.' And Leo just kind of fell asleep. And I did know exactly what he wanted - this kind of cheese and no tomato and no pickle. I absolutely knew. And I thought, `God, that's really weird that I know this person so well.' It was brilliant.

Topics: Tomatoes, Want, Assistants, Really Weird

I've never worked with prosthetics before in that sort of capacity. I did a bit of prosthetic work when I had to give birth in Jude, which is quite a different set of prosthetics. But I had so much admiration for the hair and make-up department and the prosthetics team, who are actually based at Shepperton, and who put together that look for Hanna. I

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Team, Hair, Giving

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

source: - Interview to Marie Claire magazine, April, 2009.

Topics: Hair, Two, Looks

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

source: - Interview with Tarek Hijazi, www.askmen.com. March 27, 2011.

Topics: Sunshine, Doors, Mind, Clementines, Eternal Sunshine

Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Opportunity, Play, Years

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Long, Preparation, Important

Also for me, I don't make endless movies back to back all the time, I really sort of come to understand and love the characters that I play. And with April and Hanna you sort of go through a weird period of feeling sad about letting them go. Sometimes that takes me a week and sometimes it takes me a couple of months, just so that I can feel I can realign my own thoughts again. I do feel really, really blessed that I've had these opportunities.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Couple, Blessed, Character

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

source: - "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

Topics: Mother, Baby, Morning

Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.

source: - "Isn’t She Deneuvely?". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. November 03, 2008.

Topics: Glasses, Minutes, Chardonnay

I'm a bit famous now! It's a bit strange!

Topics: Strange, Bits

Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

Topics: Real, Feel Better, People, Breast Implants, Plastic Surgery

I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

source: - "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

Topics: Beautiful, People, Way, Questionable, Backhanded Compliments

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

Topics: Skinny, Sticks, Curvy

I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I'm much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers.

Topics: Nice, Shoes, Boots, Loafers, Birkenstocks

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

Topics: Sweat, Ordinary, Roles

I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.

Topics: Thinking, People, Different

Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I don't often go there unless I'm doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it's really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Children, Holiday, Kids, Sand Castle

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Children, Parent, Majority

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Home, Kids, Years

Leo and I are kindred spirits - we're cut from the same cloth.

Topics: Cutting, Spirit, Kindred Spirit, Kindred

Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!

Topics: Running, Dog, Beach

I'll go to Tracie Martyn about a week before and get the Resculpting Facial. It makes you look brighter, healthier... like you got some extra rest. I'm 33 now and need to treat my skin, otherwise it doesn't look fresh.

Topics: Skins, Needs, Looks

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'

Topics: Daughter, Doe, Want, Backsides

After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. () So it was important to me after Titanic to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.

Topics: Girl, Important, Desire