I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, 'And you're getting the tube?' And I said, 'Yes'. And she said, 'Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, 'No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.

A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I love to cook. I could never give that up.

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Leo and I are kindred spirits - we're cut from the same cloth.