Winslet: "I do have impossibly high standards."

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

Winslet: "I always try and give as much as I can, rather than get as much as I can."

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."

Winslet: "I love that people feel they can approach me."

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."

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

Winslet: "In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't."

Winslet: "You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things."

Winslet: "There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less."

Winslet: "I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working."

Winslet: "I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something."

Winslet: "One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful."

Winslet: "I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself."

Winslet: "I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is."

Winslet: "I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me."

Winslet: "My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years."

Winslet: "I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother."

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

Winslet: "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."

Winslet: "I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'"

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 being honest."

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."

Winslet: "My feeling about why I like making films is you can come away from a film feeling so changed and touched. I really love that, the thought that I could be giving people a lot."

Winslet: "I am not a hypocrite."

Winslet: "The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me."

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

Winslet: "Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear."

Winslet: "My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it."

Winslet: "I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid."

Winslet: "I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things."

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."

Winslet: "I hope I'm always learning something."

Winslet: "I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives."

Winslet: "Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything."

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."

Winslet: "Life is short, and it is here to be lived."

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?'"

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

Winslet: "When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'"

Winslet: "I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't."