Kate Winslet
The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.Collection: Change
It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!Collection: Trust
Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!Collection: Dad
So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.Collection: Moving
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.Collection: Computers
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.
Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.
I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.
Being told to cut off and walk away from a child - I cannot imagine it. I think I'd rather die.
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.
I get up extremely early in the morning.
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 lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.
I've never really been a girly-girl.
Acting is bloody scary.
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.
I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.
I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.
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.'
Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
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?'
I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'
I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.
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 groundedness is definitely something I grew up with.
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.
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.
I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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.
Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.
The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.
Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.
Sophia Loren is glamorous.
I am a big believer in marriage.
Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.