I have just wanted to be an actress. That’s always been my goal. I didn’t want to be famous.
KATE WINSLETI 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.
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 was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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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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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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She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.
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Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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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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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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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 struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it’s impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.
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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.
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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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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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If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.
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