Kate Winslet Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I hope I'm always learning something.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I just look better in simple black things.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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