Top 60 Kate Beckinsale Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kate Beckinsale

2. “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

3. “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

4. “My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I’m told it is spectacular. But you can’t really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?”

— Kate Beckinsale

5. “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

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

— Kate Beckinsale

7. “If I get a script that’s set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don’t think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I’m really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

9. “I’m glad I’ve never been so successful that I couldn’t stop doing one thing. I’ve kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.”

— Kate Beckinsale

10. “I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

12. “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

13. “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

14. “Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.”

— Kate Beckinsale

15. “Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you’re tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.”

— Kate Beckinsale

16. “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

17. “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

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

20. “I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent 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

21. “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.”

— Kate Beckinsale

22. “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 alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!”

— Kate Beckinsale

23. “Were I not married to the director, I’m not sure I’d know anything about the ‘Underworld’ sequel.”

— Kate Beckinsale

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.”

— Kate Beckinsale

29. “I’m attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it’s a journey that is much more interesting.”

— Kate Beckinsale

30. “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

31. “Obviously I’ve had great experiences with people I’ve worked with on films – I’ve married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to marry you. I’m done.’”

— Kate Beckinsale

32. “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

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

— Kate Beckinsale

34. “Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.”

— Kate Beckinsale

35. “As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you’re vulnerable, you’re a much better actress.”

— Kate Beckinsale

36. “It’s wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn’t all about me.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

38. “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 don’t know how well I’d do.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

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41. “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.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

43. “I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.”

— Kate Beckinsale

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44. “Always argue over text so other people aren’t embarrassed!”

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Kate Beckinsale

46. “I feel like I’m really lucky.”

— Kate Beckinsale

47. “I didn’t go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.”

— Kate Beckinsale

48. “It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it’s a human being and it’s not a vampire and it’s not fighting monsters. This isn’t the kind of movie that’s got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.”

— Kate Beckinsale

49. “I’m a fan of action movies.”

— Kate Beckinsale

50. “I feel like I’ve done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.”

— Kate Beckinsale