Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
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
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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 young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
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
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
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
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
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 does to you?

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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 basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

Kate Beckinsale
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
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

I'm a fan of action movies.

Kate Beckinsale
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.