Kate Winslet is taking a break from films. The Oscar-winning actress thinks she is so overexposed she has no choice but to take some time off.

The 33-year-old star said: "I think I have to take a holiday. I'm sick of me and I'm sure everybody else is too!"

Kate Winslet wore a pubic wig for "The Reader." The Oscar-winning actress had to bare all for the Holocaust movie and producers took measures to ensure her body was consistent with the era.

She told Allure magazine: "I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin - a wig - because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough."

Kate Winslet still wears a ring Leonardo DiCaprio gave her. The happily married actress cherishes the engraved gold band presented to her by Leonardo when they starred as doomed lovers in the 1997 box office hit "Titanic."

Kate, who wears the band alongside her wedding ring, told Flare magazine: "Yes, Leo's ring is engraved on the inside, but I'm not going to tell you what it says."

Kate Winslet runs a very strict household. The Oscar-winning actress - who raises her two children, Mia, eight, and five-year-old Joe, with husband Sam Mendes - is an authoritarian when it comes to family life and likes everything to run smoothly.

She said: "I really rule the roost, I absolutely steer the ship. Constantly making checklists - you know, library books have to go in on a Friday, make sure that one day a week the children are not having bread for lunch."

Liam Neeson is "bewildered" following the death of his wife Natasha Richardson.

The 56-year-old actor - who has two sons Micheal, 13, and 12-year-old Daniel with Natasha - is struggling to cope with his grief and is reluctant to talk about Natasha, who died on Wednesday after hitting her head during a skiing accident in Canada.

Kate Winslet refuses to mix with local residents in her Gloucestershire village. The "Reader' actress and director husband Sam Mendes have a lavish $4 million mansion in a small community in South West England but her neighbors moan they never see the Oscar winner at local events.

One local resident said: "She's probably a very nice person but she's not a villager. You wouldn't expect to see her at the village fete."