Quotes By Kate Beckinsale

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

I'm a fan of action movies.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

I feel like I'm really lucky.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.