Kate Winslet Quotes & Sayings

I hope I'm always learning something. — Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

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

Ah ... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field. — Kate Winslet

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge. — Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean. — Kate Winslet

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? — Kate Winslet

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

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. — Kate Winslet

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! — Kate Winslet

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

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was. — Kate Winslet

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I just look better in simple black things. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that. — Kate Winslet

I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?' — Kate Winslet

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

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

No actor wants to play someone else's performance. — Kate Winslet

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make. — Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget. — Kate Winslet

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'. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed. — Kate Winslet

There's a lot of judgement 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. — Kate Winslet

Commitment to one other person in life is glorious. — Kate Winslet

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

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something. — Kate Winslet

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

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

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now. — Kate Winslet

You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know? — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world. — Kate Winslet

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies. — Kate Winslet

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all. — Kate Winslet

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! — Kate Winslet

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old. — Kate Winslet

'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity. — Kate Winslet

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

I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues. — Kate Winslet

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making. — Kate Winslet

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

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows. — Kate Winslet

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That's why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter. — Kate Winslet

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.' — Kate Winslet

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character. — Kate Winslet

Leo and I are kindred spirits
we're cut from the same cloth, — Kate Winslet

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

I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun. — Kate Winslet

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide. — Kate Winslet

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

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.' — Kate Winslet

I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic. — Kate Winslet

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'. — Kate Winslet

I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school. — Kate Winslet

Acting is bloody scary. — Kate Winslet

At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.' — Kate Winslet

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up. — Kate Winslet

Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am. — Kate Winslet