Kate Winslet
There's more to life than cheek bones.
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
I hope I'm always learning something.
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.
I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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.
I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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.
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.
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.
I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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?'
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.
It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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.
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.
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.
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.
You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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.
I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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.'
I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
I am not a hypocrite.
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
I have cellulite.
I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.