Top 155 Kate Winslet Quotes

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London… and suddenly, I couldn’t just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

We’re the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.

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.

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.

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

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

Who doesn’t love to be surprised?

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

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.

When I was doing ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ I was asked, ‘If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?’ And I was so stunned by that. I thought: ‘Nothing.’ I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.

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

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

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.

At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

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.’

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 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.

I burp, I fart. I’m a real woman.

‘Holy Smoke’ is very brave because I don’t think it’s easy to watch.

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.

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

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

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

I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she’s going to a party, I’ll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.

I think it’s very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

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.

No actor wants to play someone else’s performance.

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

You can’t choose who you fall in love with, you know?

Oh, I had, ‘No one will ever fancy me!’ I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine.

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.

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.

No one can look bad when you’ve been lit for six hours.

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?

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.

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in ‘Heavenly Creatures.’

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!

I’ve decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don’t know anyone who does that.

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.

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.

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.

I need to be looked after. I’m not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn’t grow up with it, and it’s not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.’

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.

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.

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

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.

Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.

I don’t read magazine articles that I’ve been in.

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.

Thank God I’m in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say ‘I love you’ over and over.

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.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That’s a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

If I’m going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’d never want to do something just for the show of it.

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.’

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 do have impossibly high standards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Film, schmilm. I’m telling you, television is so much harder.