Quotes from Kate Winslet

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'

Mothers who work full time — they're the real heroes.

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.

Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.