Latest Kate Winslet Quotes from Interviews

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• When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Stories, Reckless

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Thinking, Circumstances

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

  Kate Winslet

  Insecurity

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

• My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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

  Actresses, Inspired, Toolbox

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I'm incredibly proud to have been nominated in the past and it really means a lot to me because I do work very hard when I'm making a film and I do really do absolutely give my all. To get that kind of pat on the back, it's really amazing and also never something that I anticipated would possibly happen to me, ever. So I am very, very proud to have been there before. And, you know, the nice thing about nominations is that, same as awards, no one can actually take them away from you and I'm proud of that.

  Kate Winslet

  Nice, Mean, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.

  Kate Winslet

  Jobs, Reading, Divorce

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Home, Kids, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Parent, Majority

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Children, Holiday, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Dream, Fall, Worry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.

  Kate Winslet

  Reading, House, Hollywood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Emotional, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Challenges, Acting, Yeah

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

  Kate Winslet

  Wine, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Emotional, Feet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Also for me, I don't make endless movies back to back all the time, I really sort of come to understand and love the characters that I play. And with April and Hanna you sort of go through a weird period of feeling sad about letting them go. Sometimes that takes me a week and sometimes it takes me a couple of months, just so that I can feel I can realign my own thoughts again. I do feel really, really blessed that I've had these opportunities.

  Kate Winslet

  Couple, Blessed, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I've never worked with prosthetics before in that sort of capacity. I did a bit of prosthetic work when I had to give birth in Jude, which is quite a different set of prosthetics. But I had so much admiration for the hair and make-up department and the prosthetics team, who are actually based at Shepperton, and who put together that look for Hanna. I

  Kate Winslet

  Team, Hair, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

  Kate Winslet

  Opportunity, Play, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

  Kate Winslet

  Long, Preparation, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Commitment, Life Is

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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.

  Kate Winslet

  Tabloids, Opera, Stuff

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous.

  Kate Winslet

  Goal, Want, Actresses

  Source: www.glamour.com