Winslet Quotes & Sayings

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver. — Barry Humphries

I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing. — Kate Winslet

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

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.' — Kate Winslet

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie ... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box. — Kate Winslet

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

Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing. — Elizabeth Olsen

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

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. — Kate Winslet

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life. — 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

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 never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me. — Kate Winslet

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid. — Kate Winslet

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

I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no. — Kate Winslet

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything. — Kate Winslet

I'd never want to do something just for the show of it. — Kate Winslet

Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation. — Kate Winslet

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average. — Kate Winslet

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. — 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

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been. — Kate Winslet

My husband and I met in a house fire, basically. — Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her. — Bun B.

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. — 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

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. — Kate Winslet

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. — Kate Winslet

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are. — Kate Winslet

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis. — Emily Perkins

I do have impossibly high standards. — 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 don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it? — Kate Winslet

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. — Kate Winslet

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in. — Kate Winslet

I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it. — Kate Winslet

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing. — Kate Winslet

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

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size. — 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

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

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? — Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves. — Kate Winslet

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie! — Scott Disick

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

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.' — Kate Winslet

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

Marriage has made me safer. — Kate Winslet

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. — Kate Winslet

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

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

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

My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies. — Kate Winslet

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star. — Kate Winslet

I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire. — Catherine Deneuve

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache — 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

I have wrinkles which are very evident. I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please, can you change it back?' — 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

I have cellulite. — Kate Winslet

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

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up. — Kate Winslet

It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum. — Kate Winslet

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off. — Kate Winslet

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

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

It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise. — 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

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. — Kate Winslet

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

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. — Kate Winslet

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

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty. — Kate Winslet

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms. — Anna Torv

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange. — Rachael Harris

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

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' — Kate Winslet

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder. — 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 know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day. — 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'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

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing. — 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

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22. — Kate Winslet