Kate Winslet Quotes

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in other ways, we're completely different. It's hard to say because I'm an actor living in a world where we're all pretty privileged, and this guy is fighting for his life. They're very different circumstances. Within those circumstances, there are probably ways that we react to certain situations that are similar.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes the reader cry.

When I read, I don't need a character to look like me, act like me, or think like me. I don't need to have my heart broken. I don't need to be surprised or amused or challenged, and I don't need to swoon.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.