Top 75 Inspiring Kate Winslet Quotes on Life and Success

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October 19th, 2022

Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress best recognized for her roles as a strong, complex woman in indie films, particularly historical dramas.

Kate Winslet has been greatly loved & appreciated for her leading & supporting roles in the films "Titanic", "Sense and Sensibility", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "Finding Neverland", "The Holiday", "The Reader", and "Mildred Pierce".

Kate started her career as a child actor in the '80s, and since then, she has continued to work both on screen and on stage, winning acclaim for her performances to become one of the most popular actresses in the world.

We've put together an incredible collection of the best Kate Winslet quotes to read.

Here they are:

Top 75 Inspiring Kate Winslet Quotes on Life and Success

Favorite Kate Winslet Quotes On Life

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. - Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. - Kate Winslet

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' - Kate Winslet

I do have impossibly high standards. - Kate Winslet

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realize a lot of my dreams and aspirations. - Kate Winslet

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me real beauty. - Kate Winslet

I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic. - Kate Winslet

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life. - Kate Winslet

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows. - Kate Winslet

My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict. - Kate Winslet

The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head. - Kate Winslet

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. - Kate Winslet

Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively. - Kate Winslet

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?' - Kate Winslet

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. - Kate Winslet

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. - 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. - 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.' - Kate Winslet

I think groundedness is definitely something I grew up with. - Kate Winslet

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. - Kate Winslet

Just because society, government, and whatever were different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their noses, or swear. - Kate Winslet

I've never really been a girly girl. - Kate Winslet

'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch. - Kate Winslet

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all. - Kate Winslet

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and the things that the mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother. - Kate Winslet

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of body-hair maintenance. - Kate Winslet

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old. - Kate Winslet

'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually. - Kate Winslet

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape. - Kate Winslet

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman. - Kate Winslet

You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know? - Kate Winslet

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. - Kate Winslet

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick. - Kate Winslet

I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that. - Kate Winslet

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. - Kate Winslet

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is. - Kate Winslet

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

Famous Kate Winslet Quotes On Success

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learning to forget. - Kate Winslet

I know the true meaning of getting by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. - Kate Winslet

I am not a hypocrite. - Kate Winslet

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. - Kate Winslet

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

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly, and real. - Kate Winslet

Before Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me. - Kate Winslet

I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in 'Heavenly Creatures.' - 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. - Kate Winslet

Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs! - Kate Winslet

I hope I'm always learning something. - Kate Winslet

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. - Kate Winslet

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle. - Kate Winslet

No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours. - Kate Winslet

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are. - Kate Winslet

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

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

I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it was now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's mid-thigh length? - Kate Winslet

It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it! One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful. - Kate Winslet

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot and all that because I don't think of it that way. - Kate Winslet

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 says to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that I could weep. - Kate Winslet

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. - Kate Winslet

Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am. - Kate Winslet

There's more to life than cheekbones. - Kate Winslet

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

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. - Kate Winslet

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.' - Kate Winslet

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. - Kate Winslet

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'. - Kate Winslet

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.' - Kate Winslet

I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things. - Kate Winslet

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

I think I can see more clearly now - how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that. - Kate Winslet

I love to cook. I could never give that up. - Kate Winslet

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow. - Kate Winslet

It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum. - Kate Winslet

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 and honest. - Kate Winslet

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