Top 100 Kate Winslet Quotes
#1. The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
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#4. 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.
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#5. No actor wants to play someone else's performance.
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#6. 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.
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#7. On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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#10. With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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#11. In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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#12. It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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#13. Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.
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#14. The good and bad things are what form us as people ... change makes us grow.
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#15. '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.
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#16. One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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#17. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#22. I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.
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#23. I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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#24. I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits
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#25. Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
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#26. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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#31. God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.
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#35. I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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#40. 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.'
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#41. I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes.
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#42. At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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#43. Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.
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#44. 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.'
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#46. You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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#47. My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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#48. 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?
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#49. 'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.
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#53. I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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#54. 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?'
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#55. Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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#60. Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!
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#61. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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#65. I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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#66. The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,
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#68. 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'.
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#69. Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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#70. 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.
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#71. I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.
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#72. My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
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#78. I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.
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#81. My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.
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#82. You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?
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#83. 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.
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#84. It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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#87. My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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#89. 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.
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#90. If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.
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#91. I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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#92. I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.
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#93. It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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#94. Leo and I are kindred spirits
we're cut from the same cloth,
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#96. 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.
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#97. Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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#98. My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.
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#99. I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'
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#100. I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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