I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best..

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….

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't th….

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you cho….

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat..

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd….

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me the other day and says, ‘….

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gather….

That's the main reason I took it up But I do feel I don’t know part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I….

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle..

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so….

The assistant asked, `What do you want on it?' and Leo said, `Oh, Kate will tell you.' And Leo just kind of fell asleep. And I did know exactly what ….

Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache.

I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I'm much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers..

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Y….

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit wel….

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask..

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving..

I have just wanted to be an actress. That's always been my goal. I didn't want to be famous..

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it..

There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such a team, nothing could break us, nothing could come near….