I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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Kate Winslet
Profession:
Actress
Born:
October 5, 1975
Nationality:
British
Quotes by Kate Winslet
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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.'
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Kate Winslet
When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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I'm really happy in my own skin.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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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.
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff - in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
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I am not a hypocrite.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I have cellulite.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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