Quotes from Kate Winslet

I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

I don't own copies of my own movies.

I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

I hope I'm always learning something.

I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

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

I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

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'.

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

There's more to life than cheek bones.

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.

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.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.

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

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.