I have no regrets. If you regret things, you’re sort of stepping backwards. I’m a believer in going forwards.
KATE WINSLETYou’re supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!
More Kate Winslet Quotes
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I’m a normal human being. I don’t have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
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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.
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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.
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I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. Children orientate towards examples. That’s why I talk solely positive about my body in front of my daughter.
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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.
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Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I’m often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don’t think I’ve actually cried watching myself.
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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.
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I don’t believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn’t a dress rehearsal!
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I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.
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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.
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I wouldn’t be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don’t think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn’t sit well on my soul.
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I’m always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There’s a whole other toolbox.
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I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.
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Femininity for me means happiness and freedom, freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
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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.
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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.
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The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don’t desire to look like that.
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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’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 feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.
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If you’re not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career.
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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.
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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.
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When you’re telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.
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