“At 14, I watched Dirty Dancing and just wanted Patrick Swayze to take me away, so in terms of love, I am a hook, line and sinker girl.” | Source (2006)

On Taking Time Off

“I wish I could tell you I was going to learn French or take singing lessons or do tap dancing - they’re all on my list.” (2006)
“The truth is I’m going to be on the school run, doing packed lunches. I’m very much looking forward to having time to think about nothing else but my kids.” (2006)

On Raising Her Children

“I have an amazing husband who helps with all those things. I’m very lucky.”

On Her Career

“But I will say that I am unbelievably proud of my nominations. I love the fact that I got the nominations before I was 30. I can’t believe that’s happened. It’s an incredible honor.” | Source (2006)

“I feel like a cracked record, because I keep saying that in terms of my career I feel incredibly lucky, but I really mean it. I’m incredibly happy, truly, truly happy and feeling more centred than I have for a long time. I feel calmer, older and wiser.” | Source (2006)

“Since I was 13 or 14 I’ve always felt older than I actually am.”

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

“I‘m a bit famous now! It’s a bit strange!”

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

“There’s more to life than cheek bones.”

“Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.”

“Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn’t mean that people didn’t have sex, pick their nose, or swear.”

“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.”

“The whole concept of ‘grounding’ children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don’t like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don’t want them to not like me.”

“Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.”

“I love that people feel they can approach me.”

“I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I’m much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers.”

“Because of the person I am I won’t be knocked down–ever. They can do what they like,” she says.

“They can say I’m fat, I’m thin, I’m whatever, and I’ll never stop. I just won’t. I’ve got too much to do. I’ve too much to be happy about.”

“As long as you give them what they want, they love you.” (On the paparazi.)

“When I was in India, one of my ankles was extremely swollen because it had been bittten by some bug. Well, I was standing in the water, watching this festival that celebrates the god Shiva. Five minutes later, my ankle wasn’t swollen anymore. I’m absolutely serious.”

“I‘ll never be a skinny girl - I’ll always be Curvy Kate.”

“I wouldn’t dream of working on anything that didn’t make my gut grumble or my heart want to explode.”

“I‘m a normal person, so I end up having lovely chats with people at the fruit and vegetable stall and I love it.”

“Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.”

“I knew, right from the start, that it was not a matter of putting on red lipstick and tying your hair in bunches and saying ‘I want to be a star.’”

“Acting is about being real, being honest. Ultimately, the audience doesn’t love you or want to be with you because of what your face looks like or because of the size of your backside. They’ve got to love you because of the honesty within your soul.”

“Thank God for British films they don’t care what shape you are.”

“The female roles are just stronger in period films. I read as many contemporary scripts as I do period ones, but the period ones just get me every time.”

“My feeling about why I like making films is you can come away from a film feeling so changed and touched. I really love that, the thought that I could be giving people a lot”

“At some stage I’m going to have to say Right, that’s it. I’m stopping for a bit.”

“It’s very important for me to make the statement that I am English and just because I’ve done one really big film, it doesn’t mean that I don’t want to keep a finger in the fantastic British film industry and do films like this.”

“But, personally, I don’t think I’ve ever changed. I never wanted to be a film star. I love my job, that’s all I can say. And God knows there are people on film crews that work longer and harder than I do.”

“Quite frankly that stuff doesn’t interest me. I’m not saying go away Hollywood because I happen to think Hollywood is an extraordinary place full of amazing creativity that creates history every year.”

“I don’t want to now have nothing to do with Hollywood, but I don’t want to be the kind of actor who just does lots of big films. I love acting and I always want to love it and it can be destructive to just do those sort of films.”

“I‘ve never had a career agenda, as such. I just make the films I want to make. I wanted to make Titanic because I loved the script and I loved the character. If other people agree, that’s fine by me!”

“Being a film star is a label and seems to me not to be about whether you’re a good actor, but about the size of your breasts, the size of your body, and whether you’ve had a facelift or a nose job. None of that stuff interests me.”

“My dad’s ever so funny. He’s very laid back and treats it just like a job. Like, when I got Titanic it was, like, ‘Dad, Dad, Dad, guess what! I got Titanic!’ ‘Excellent babe, brilliant… I’ve got to go, I’m desperate for the loo.’”

“Fame’s a funny thing and it’s taken a lot of getting used to, especially the privacy thing and having to think about everything that you do.

“It’s extraordinary and bizarre and I’m as fascinated by fame as much as anyone. But it seems daft that I’m famous and I’ve not really got to grips with that. It’s a mixed blessing, but along with the problems to get career opportunities like this is really great and I’m very lucky.”

“Being a film star is very much a label and these days it’s not about being a good actor or not, it’s about the size of your breasts, the shape of your body and whether you’ve had a nose job.”

“I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, `Are you Kate Winslet? And I said, `Well, yes. I am actually’. And she said, `And you’re getting the tube?’ And I said, `Yes’. And she said, `Don’t you have a big car that drives you around?’ And I said, `No’. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn’t being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.”

“I was so fat! I can’t believe it!”

“I am so not fat. I’m fit. I’m healthy. I feel so much more comfortable this way. For God’s sake, don’t argue with nature!”

“I am who I am. I’m healthy. I swim a mile every day. I’ll never be a stick insect, and I wouldn’t want to be either because it seems to me that a lot of people who are very thin are just really unhappy.”

“I feel for those people (anorexics) because they’re being screwed up by what is said to be beautiful and successful these days, thin and pretty, and it’s just bollocks.”

“I had a time in my life when I was about 19 and I was very thin and I wasn’t eating. I was anorexic for about six months. And I was so unhappy. And someone said to me one day, ‘Don’t you realize how much of your day you are spending thinking about your physicality?’ And it was so true. I realized I’d wake up in the morning, the first thing I do I would look in the mirror: ‘Oh, my bum looks big. Oh, my face is fat.’ And I just felt, ‘What am I doing to my life? I can’t even think about others.’

“When I was 18 and 19 and 20, I would weigh myself and write it down in my diary. I’m not that person now. I have that feeling of not caring. I’m just happy being me.”