Kate Beckinsale Quotes

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

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.

I'm a fan of action movies.

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!

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.

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.

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

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.

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

I find American behaviour...odd

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

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

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

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.

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

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

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'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

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

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

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'm usually the last person to know.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

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

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.