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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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“Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.”

Ifs Minutes Glasses Commit Chardonnay

Author:Kate Winslet

“I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.”

Ifs Regret Believer Backwards No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Kate Winslet

“With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Ends Would Be Difficult Hours Reader Wine Glasses Decent The End Of The Day Get Back Berlin Great Idea Shattered Wine Glass Drowsy

Author:Kate Winslet

“I knew it was going to be important that if I had an audience understand who she was, then all those things had to come from a place that was grounded, as opposed to being tics and manners and twitches. I didn't think it was going to be as rich, perhaps, as if I was going to make it more emotional.”

Ifs Thinking Important Audience Rich Emotional Manners Grounded Tics

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“I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.”

Ifs Mind Children Made Passionate Determined Stopping

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

Ifs Asks Ask Me Insecure

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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

Author:Kate Winslet

“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

Author:Kate Winslet

“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!”

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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.”

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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

Author:Kate Winslet

“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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“I am incredibly passionate about my life, I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I'd have to call it 'P is for Passion'. I don't go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.”

Ifs Heart Book Feelings Passion Emotion My Heart Passionate Spots Instant Halfway Sleeves

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“I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you're always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I've never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Particular Areas Teeth Fats Teenager Insecure Iconic Being Fat

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“One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs I Can Reason Done Stuff My Own Intuition Rely Fixing Psychotherapy

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“The audience's reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it's because they love how we've acted. That's the most beautiful award. It's very important for me, people appreciating what I do.”

People Ifs Believe Important Stories Beautiful Audience Appreciate Reactions Love Story Awards

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“I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me the other day and says, ‘One day, I will have a girlfriend. But I might have a boyfriend. If I’m gay.’ He’s 7! And I said, ‘You might have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, darling.’ And he said, ‘Which would you prefer?’ And I said, ‘My love, that would be entirely up to you, and it doesn’t make any difference to me.’ But that he knows! It’s a real privilege. Talk about the best education.”

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“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.”

Ifs Trying Failing

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“If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career”

Ifs Stills Actors Careers Growing Backbone Learning And Growing

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“I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Character One Thing Elements Passionate Hardship

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About the Author

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

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