Kate Beckinsale

I'm usually the last person to know.

— Kate Beckinsale

I feel like I'm really lucky.

— Kate Beckinsale

I'm a fan of action movies.

— Kate Beckinsale

I find American behaviour...odd

— Kate Beckinsale

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair.

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Kate Beckinsale

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"…

— Kate Beckinsale

Now my typical daily diet is eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, a chicken or vegetable wrap for lunch, then fish and vegetables…

— 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 dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood…

— 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…

— Kate Beckinsale

The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also…

— Kate Beckinsale

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are…

— Kate Beckinsale

I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as…

— Kate Beckinsale

I think, at 19, I was very grown-up in certain ways and extremely not so in others. If I had come on…

— Kate Beckinsale

To bear children is the ultimate in femininity; it's beautiful. And if having kids is going to affect my career, then fine,…

— Kate Beckinsale

When [Len Wiseman and I] first met, I was a huge fan of the 'Alien' movies. I was a huge 'Die Hard'…

— Kate Beckinsale

Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29... What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out…

— Kate Beckinsale

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in…

— Kate Beckinsale

I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are.…

— Kate Beckinsale

It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then…

— Kate Beckinsale

I'd like to have finally answered the anorexic question so profoundly and definitively, that would be the end of it. The only…

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale