As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
– 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
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
– 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
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
– 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
If I have children I am going to make sure people don't ask them, Are you going to be an actor? My mother said I could be anything I wanted except a policeman.
– Kate Beckinsale
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humor was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
– 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
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.
– Kate Beckinsale
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
– Kate Beckinsale
People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.
– 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
I'm a fan of action movies.
– 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
I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.