Quotes from 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.

Marriage has made me safer.

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.

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.

The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.

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

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.

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

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

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

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

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.

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?

Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist, but also absolutely brilliant.

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.

I am a big believer in marriage.

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.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

Acting is bloody scary.

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 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.

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 was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.