Top 100 Kate Winslet Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I’ve got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

53. “I don’t have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else’s or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.”

— Kate Winslet

54. “I hope I’m always learning something.”

— Kate Winslet

55. “Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I’m so often just terrified by it.”

— Kate Winslet

56. “I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.”

— Kate Winslet

57. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

58. “The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store – if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.”

— Kate Winslet

59. “The audience’s reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it’s because they love how we’ve acted. That’s the most beautiful award. It’s very important for me, people appreciating what I do.”

— Kate Winslet

60. “I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that.”

— Kate Winslet

61. “God, my brain really goes to mush when I’m pregnant.”

— Kate Winslet

62. “It’s true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.”

— Kate Winslet

63. “I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, ‘You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?’ I’d rather be the woman they’re saying ‘She’s looking older’ about than ‘She’s looking stoned.’”

— Kate Winslet

64. “I wouldn’t be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don’t think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn’t sit well on my soul.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

66. “As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.”

— Kate Winslet

67. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

68. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

70. “My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

72. “Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

74. “I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.”

— Kate Winslet

75. “I’d much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.”

— Kate Winslet

76. “It’s very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef – I’d love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don’t want that for my children. When they’re older, if people say to them, ‘Did you have a chef?’ I want them to be shocked by the question.”

— Kate Winslet

77. “I’m always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There’s a whole other toolbox.”

— Kate Winslet

78. “If you’re not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career.”

— Kate Winslet

79. “I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.”

— Kate Winslet

80. “I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, ‘You’ve got such a beautiful face,’ in the way of, like, ‘Oh, isn’t it a shame that from the neck down you’re questionable.’”

— Kate Winslet

81. “I have just wanted to be an actress. That’s always been my goal. I didn’t want to be famous.”

— Kate Winslet

82. “I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives.”

— Kate Winslet

83. “I would never accept a role that wasn’t going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I’d say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I’d ever done. It took me to places I didn’t actually know I could go to, and that’s what I want my career to be all about.”

— Kate Winslet

84. “Apart from The Holiday, I haven’t really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it’s just that I don’t often go there unless I’m doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it’s really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.”

— Kate Winslet

85. “I still don’t believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don’t stuff down chocolate biscuits.”

— Kate Winslet

86. “But I really can’t and I actually don’t like switching off because I worry that I might lose my thread, or something. I fall asleep and I hope to God that I’m going to dream about it, because then I don’t have to put it down.”

— Kate Winslet

87. “One of the reasons I’ve never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there’s anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.”

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet

89. “I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn’t think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.”

— Kate Winslet

90. “I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn’t on the list of the high-achieving.”

— Kate Winslet

91. “A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn’t like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.”

— Kate Winslet

92. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

93. “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.”

— Kate Winslet

94. “I’d like to grow old with my face moving.”

— Kate Winslet

95. “I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn’t.”

— Kate Winslet

96. “I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.”

— Kate Winslet

97. “When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don’t particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.”

— Kate Winslet

98. “I love to cook. I could never give that up.”

— Kate Winslet

99. “I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.”

— Kate Winslet

100. “I’ve never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they’re on-screen. That doesn’t make sense to me.”

— Kate Winslet