Top 100 Kate Winslet Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

3. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

7. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

8. “As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia, because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

10. “I don’t believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn’t a dress rehearsal!”

— Kate Winslet

11. “I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.”

— Kate Winslet

12. “Acting is about being real, being honest.”

— Kate Winslet

13. “My husband is not a jealous person in any way.”

— Kate Winslet

14. “You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.”

— Kate Winslet

15. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

16. “I have no regrets. If you regret things, you’re sort of stepping backwards. I’m a believer in going forwards.”

— Kate Winslet

17. “I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.”

— Kate Winslet

18. “I’m not very technically minded. I mean, I don’t know how to do e-mail on computers.”

— Kate Winslet

19. “That’s the main reason I took it up But I do feel 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.”

— Kate Winslet

20. “You can’t be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?”

— Kate Winslet

21. “Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.”

— Kate Winslet

22. “If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.”

— Kate Winslet

23. “A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that’s when the dark puffy circles can get you.”

— Kate Winslet

24. “There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.”

— Kate Winslet

25. “I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it’s impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.”

— Kate Winslet

26. “I look like people that walk down the street. I don’t have perfect boobs, I don’t have zero cellulite – of course I don’t – and I’m curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that’s great.”

— Kate Winslet

27. “I finally moved out of my parent’s house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.”

— Kate Winslet

28. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

29. “Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

31. “Ah, my dad’s whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we’d hear the whistle and we’d all come running. Like dogs!”

— Kate Winslet

32. “I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn’t come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin – a wig – because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough.”

— Kate Winslet

33. “I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you’re always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I’ve never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.”

— Kate Winslet

34. “I just look better in simple black things.”

— Kate Winslet

35. “Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there’s a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.”

— Kate Winslet

36. “Because of the person I am I won’t be knocked down – ever. 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.”

— Kate Winslet

37. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

38. “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!’”

— Kate Winslet

39. “Everybody asks me this, whether I’m slightly annoyed that I didn’t get to kiss Johnny Depp We would have laughed.”

— Kate Winslet

40. “I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.”

— Kate Winslet

41. “I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn’t as well-oiled as it was.”

— Kate Winslet

42. “He’s probably the world’s most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn’t think he’s that gorgeous. And to me, he’s just smelly, farty Leo.”

— Kate Winslet

43. “I’m a normal human being. I don’t have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?”

— Kate Winslet

44. “For me, they definitely made it more challenging. The comfort zone factor really kicked in between Leo and I, and I just think that’s because we know each other so well. We’ve known each other since we were 20-years-old.”

— Kate Winslet

45. “I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.”

— Kate Winslet

46. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

47. “I danced a lot when I was younger, and I’ve always had decent, shapely legs and thought it’s now or never. I mean, when you’re pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that’s midthigh length?”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

49. “I suffered from ‘No one will ever fancy me!’ syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.”

— Kate Winslet

50. “I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.”

— Kate Winslet