Kate Winslet

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

Marriage has made me safer.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got that voice, and I remember meeting him in the hair and make-up trailer and thinking, 'I'm going to die. He thinks I'm rubbish. Why am I here?'

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

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

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.

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

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.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

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

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?'

Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

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.

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.

I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.

I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.

I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.

Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.

Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist, but also absolutely brilliant.

I don't own copies of my own movies.

I get up extremely early in the morning.