Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

Kate Beckinsale
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
Kate Beckinsale

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.

Kate Beckinsale
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 going in different directions.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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

Kate Beckinsale
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
Kate Beckinsale

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, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

Kate Beckinsale
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 like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

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