Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster movie Titanic.

Quotes

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008

• You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.

• I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.

• I’m not the pedigree kid. I’m not classically trained. I didn’t come from the fancy home, no.

• Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there’s a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.
  • Of working out in a gym

• This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions — never.

• 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.

• 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.’

Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009

• I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know.
  • Of her weight problems

• I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.

• Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine.