My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.
— Kate Winslet
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.
It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.
Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.
Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.
I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.
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'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 think groundedness is definitely something I grew up with.
I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.'
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.'
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'm not a gardener. I wish I was.
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.
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'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.
On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.
None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.
Who doesn't love to be surprised?
I am a big believer in marriage.
We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.
I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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.
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 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 don't read magazine articles that I've been in.
Acting is bloody scary.
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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.
I get up extremely early in the morning.
Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!
No actor wants to play someone else's performance.
I am a person. I am not a soap opera.
Sophia Loren is glamorous.
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.
Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
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.
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 that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.
Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.
I've never really been a girly-girl.
You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?
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.
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.
