Quotes from Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

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.

I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

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.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

Who doesn't love to be surprised?

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

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

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.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

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

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

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.'

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.