Kate Winslet Quotes

Acting is a mysterious process.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

I lack confidence as an actor.

The worst acting is about imitation.

For me, acting is doing.

'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.