Quotes from Kate Winslet

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

Sophia Loren is glamorous.

Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

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

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

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.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

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.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

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 was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

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.

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.