Kate Winslet Quotes

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

I had always heard that theatre is for 'serious' actors but after actually having rehearsed day in and day out, I realize how challenging it is.

When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.