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 WINSLETFemininity for me means happiness and freedom, freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
More Kate Winslet Quotes
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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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It doesn’t make any sense that’s why I trust it!
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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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Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.
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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 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 wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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You can’t be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?
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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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If you’re not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career.
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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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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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Acting is about being real, being honest.
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There’s more to life than cheek bones.
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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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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 have just wanted to be an actress. That’s always been my goal. I didn’t want to be famous.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.
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