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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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“I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.”

People Thinking Looks Different Bigs Fats Vikings

Author:Kate Winslet

“It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.”

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“I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.”

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“I've never worked with prosthetics before in that sort of capacity. I did a bit of prosthetic work when I had to give birth in Jude, which is quite a different set of prosthetics. But I had so much admiration for the hair and make-up department and the prosthetics team, who are actually based at Shepperton, and who put together that look for Hanna. I”

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Author:Kate Winslet

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

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Author:Kate Winslet

“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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“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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“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.”

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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.”

“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.”

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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 have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'”

Looks Guy Please Evident Foreheads Wrinkles Posters

Author:Kate Winslet

“The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.”

Looks Desire Retouching

Author:Kate Winslet

“I'll go to Tracie Martyn about a week before and get the Resculpting Facial. It makes you look brighter, healthier... like you got some extra rest. I'm 33 now and need to treat my skin, otherwise it doesn't look fresh.”

Needs Looks Week Like You Skins Treats Extras Brighter Facial

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“I think I look nicer now. It's really weird cause when you're 21 you think, "Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then". And actually I quite like the way I look. I feel OK about myself these days.”

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“More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control.”

“I just look better in simple black things.”

Looks Black Simple

Author:Kate Winslet

“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.”

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“I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'”

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Author:Kate Winslet

About the Author

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

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