Quotes from Kate Winslet

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

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

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

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

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.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

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

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

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.

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

I finally moved out of my parents' house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

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

Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fu..ed-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.