Kate Beckinsale

People should realize women aren’t just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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!