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Kate Winslet, born on October 5, 1975, is a renowned British actress. She gained international fame for her performance in the film 'Titanic', for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet has been nominated and has won numerous awards throughout her career, including multiple Oscar nominations.

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“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.”

Film Moving Proud Performances Oscars

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“Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.”

Honestly Body Image Acquaintance Female Body Buttocks Body Confidence

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“I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.”

Thinking Cooking Endless Preparing Chopping

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“There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.”

Knows Moments Home Enjoy Indulge Knickers

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“There's more to life than cheek bones.”

Bones Cheeks More To Life

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“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.”

People Ifs World Want Feels Real Actors Acting Fantasy Honest Figures Fine Being Honest Breasts Being Real Plastic Feel Better Surgery Plastic Surgery Implants Fantasy Worlds Breast Implants

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“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.”

Ideas Girl Environment Saws Like You Awful No Idea Anorexia

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“As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.”

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“I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.”

Wells Faces Enjoy Realizing Machines

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“I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.”

Ifs Asks Ask Me Insecure

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“I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Important Young Magazines Young Women Magazine Covers

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“I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.”

Feels Roles Walking Ordinary Red Covered Sweat Carpet Red Carpet

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“I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.”

House Parent Rooms Fairs Moved My Sister Sister Funny Sister

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“I hope I'm always learning something.”

Always Learning

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“I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.”

Looks Character Red Carpet Red Carpet

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“I love to cook. I could never give that up.”

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“I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.”

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“I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.”

Kids Race Achieve Highest Lists

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“I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.”

Kind Facts Bigs Order Stars Thrown Movie Star Banner Changing My Life Big Changes

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“I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.”

Knows Mean Know How Computer Mail

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“If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.”

Ifs Children School Drama Unhappy

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“In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.”

Looks Two Might Film Hours Hair Glamorous

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“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.”

People Years Mean Different Government Sex Picks Years Ago Noses Swear

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“There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.”

Believe Kind Actresses Awful Exposing

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“Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it. But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.”

Moments Kids Used Cases Position Lonely Remains Exposing Mia

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“For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.”

Want Looks Children Has Beens Important Running School Remember My Own Childhood Kitchen Bus Lunch

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“Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.”

Shows School Guy Watches Illness Neighbor Obsessed Fake Mike

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“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?”

Mean Dresses Legs Wander Decent Pushing Length Now Or Never

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“I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.”

Wells Kind Sexy Fancy Teens Syndromes

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“I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.”

Thinking Knows Kind Developing Subconscious Shelves Loathing Disposable Really Weird

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“It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.”

People Ifs Want Children Community Dinner My Children Chef Shocked Tempting Nannies Gated Communities

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“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!”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Stars Responsibility Skins British Ridiculous Enormous Call Me Compliment Embarrassed Movie Star Julia

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“The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.”

Wells Children Doe I Can Happens Kids Wonderful Highest Flight Your Children Compliment Crew

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“The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.”

Ifs World Children I Can Whole Bigs Able Stores Partners Whole World My Children Gathering Occasional Doing Good Groceries Grocery Stores Picnics Big Families Family Gathering

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“When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Hard Choices Challenges Smart Performances Size Spite Smart Choices

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“Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache”

Heart Joy Ache Heart Ache

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“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.”

Ifs Mind Mean Matter Crazy Insane Live Life Being Crazy

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“I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.”

“Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.”

Moving Letting Go Setting Moving Forward Settings Moving On Goodbye Loving Someone Letting Go And Moving On Moving Forward In Life Just Let Go Moving On In Life Inspirational Moving On Forward In Life

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“Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.”

World Children Whole Mother Inspiring Perspective Mom Motherhood Disappear Whole World Mothers Day Having Children Happy Mothers Day Inspirational Mothers

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“You know, I never felt like I was young at the time and obviosly having Mia was absolutely planned. It's only know when I meet people who are my age and single, [with] no kids, that I reflect and say, 'Bloody hell? I really have leaved at a fast pace.'”

People Knows Kids Age Young Felt Hell Mom Pace Bloody Mia

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“I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.”

Want Heart Dream Passion Peace My Heart Guts Rumble

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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.”

Way Nice Taste Boring Stranger Bloody Body Image Juice Occasional Very Nice Way To Live

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“As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.”

Children Said Body Age Mother Inspiring Heard Proud Outlook My Best Friend Elders Body Image One Woman Mia

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“I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.”

Body Given Inspiring Accepting Body Image

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“I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. 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 don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.”

Body Hate Wish Fantasy I Hate Trade Versions Body Image

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“I look like people that walk down the street. I don't have perfect boobs, I don't have zero cellulite - of course I don't - and I'm curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that's great.”

People Ifs Way Feels Looks Courses Walks Perfect Streets Zero Body Image Empowered Curvy Cellulite

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“As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire life. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses. But at a certain point, when you achieve a lot of your goals and you can be proud of your work, you start to relax more about who you are. And that includes your appearance and self-image - I don't think I look too bad for a mother of two. But women shouldn't have to feel the pressure to compare themselves to actresses or models.”

“I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.”

People Knows I Can Pain Loses Know How Baby Weight Body Image Bothered

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About the Author

Born: October 5, 1975
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 161

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