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. Furthermore, I wanted to escape.

— Kate Winslet

Many roads to take some to joy some to heartache

— Kate Winslet

Marriage has made me safer.

— Kate Winslet

Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up they just taught me to be me.

— Kate Winslet

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

— Kate Winslet

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

— 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

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

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

— Kate Winslet

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

— Kate Winslet