Kate Winslet

I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.

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.

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

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.

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.

I think groundedness is definitely something I grew up with.

One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'

I have wrinkles which are very evident. I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please, can you change it back?'

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.'

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

Acting is bloody scary.

I've never really been a girly-girl.

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

Awards season is always a huge amount of fun whether you're a part of it or not. It's always really exciting seeing what films are coming and a lot of new talent as well.

I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

I get up extremely early in the morning.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.

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

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

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.

I do have impossibly high standards.

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

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.

On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I want to go and do my job sometimes.

None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.

What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.

Who doesn't love to be surprised?

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

I am a big believer in marriage.

Sophia Loren is glamorous.

Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.

We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

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

My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.