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Kate Beckinsale Quotes

I feel like I’m really lucky.

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can’t sing that great and I haven’t yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

– Kate Beckinsale

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That’s how it goes in my house, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

I’m a fan of action movies.

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– 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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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!’

– Kate Beckinsale

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?

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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!

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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

– Kate Beckinsale

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.

– Kate Beckinsale

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what’s on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ But I haven’t ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don’t really worry about it. If it’s funny, I don’t care.

– Kate Beckinsale