Kate Beckinsale

“I'm a fan of action movies.”

“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 do...”

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

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

“When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite you...”

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

“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.”

“When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses baske...”

“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!'”

“This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lo...”

“The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink al...”

“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 p...”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep,...”

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

“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 m...”

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

“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.”

“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.”