Quotes by Kate Beckinsale

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 my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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!'

I think actors always like to think they don’t bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

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.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it’s just not normally from morning to afternoon.

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.

But it still feels like it’s a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I’m doing a bit better there. But it’s good to be scared.

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

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

It’s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her “Van Helsing” script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.