Kate Winslet
Who doesn't love to be surprised?
No actor wants to play someone else's performance.
None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.
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.
On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.
My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.
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.
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?
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.
It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.
I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.
I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!
A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
'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.
By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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.
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
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.
'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.
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?
I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.
I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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.'
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'
My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.