Kate Beckinsale quote: "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!"

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't...
KATE BECKINSALE

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up r...
KATE BECKINSALE

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally w...
KATE BECKINSALE

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

Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate ...
KATE BECKINSALE

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did t...
KATE BECKINSALE

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who...
KATE BECKINSALE

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie...
KATE BECKINSALE

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look u...
KATE BECKINSALE

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for m...
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 ...
KATE BECKINSALE

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think g...
KATE BECKINSALE

This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and sa...
KATE BECKINSALE

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate abo...
KATE BECKINSALE

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful yo...
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 g...
KATE BECKINSALE

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so ...
KATE BECKINSALE

I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whippe...
KATE BECKINSALE

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I coul...
KATE BECKINSALE

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven...
KATE BECKINSALE

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice a...
KATE BECKINSALE

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

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

The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but i...
KATE BECKINSALE

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It...
KATE BECKINSALE

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable i...
KATE BECKINSALE

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

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
KATE BECKINSALE

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a care...
KATE BECKINSALE

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of ...
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...
KATE BECKINSALE

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

I was a big disco-dancing child really. My friend and I were constantly making up routines and fling...
KATE BECKINSALE

People are controlled to varying degrees but it will still make people think - for example Chris act...
KATE BECKINSALE

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, becau...
KATE BECKINSALE

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human be...
KATE BECKINSALE

We don't turn into bats and the werewolves kill with ultraviolet bullets that shoot daylight into us...
KATE BECKINSALE

If I have children I am going to make sure people don't ask them, "Are you going to be an actor?" My...
KATE BECKINSALE

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think t...
KATE BECKINSALE

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And e...
KATE BECKINSALE

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress...
KATE BECKINSALE

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

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam San...
KATE BECKINSALE

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfor...
KATE BECKINSALE

Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity.
KATE

I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro...
KATE

That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b...
KATE

If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual...
KATE

Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t...
KATE

The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together!
KATE

More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song. It shouldn't be this hard, and it s...
KATE

Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting.
KATE

Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive... But the thou...
KATE

Why do people get back in the box ?, when deep down inside there isn't room enough. And even though ...
KATE

Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis...
KATE

Tic tac, tic tac. Three o clock, it's time to stop, Thinking about what is not. Tic tac, tic tac May...
KATE

Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a...
KATE

Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...
KATE

Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things. But whe...
KATE

Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm being sleepless in the desert has it's charm. A billion ...
KATE

Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while..... Maybe I am lost longer then I think....
KATE

They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone...
KATE

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent....... Now I know what I did wrong all the ti...
KATE

Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther...
KATE

My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep.
KATE

Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few..
KATE

Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ...
KATE

I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last...
KATE

I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun, but it looks like I have to settle for less again.
KATE

You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ...
KATE

If water would be running up, would it wash away the spots, underneath the places, where we usually ...
KATE

No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t...
KATE

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and...
KATE FORSYTH

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ...
KATE KLISE

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON

So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE

I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st...
KATE WINSLET

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu...
KATE WINSLET

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha...
KATE WINSLET

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
KATE WINSLET

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
KATE WINSLET

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
KATE WINSLET

I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's...
KATE WINSLET

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother...
KATE WINSLET

I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d...
KATE WINSLET

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to...
KATE WINSLET

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
KATE WINSLET

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
KATE WINSLET

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to...
KATE WINSLET

You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
KATE WINSLET

What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...
KATE WINSLET

I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET

Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ...
KATE WINSLET

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
KATE WINSLET

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
KATE WINSLET

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
KATE WINSLET

British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho...
KATE WILLIAMS

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh...
KATE WILLIAMS

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box...
KATE WILLIAMS

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
KATE WILLIAMS

One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think...
KATE WILLIAMS

I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'...
KATE WILLIAMS

Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the...
KATE WILLIAMS

I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
KATE WILLIAMS

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri...
KATE WILLIAMS

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history...
KATE WILLIAMS

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his...
KATE WILLIAMS

Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t...
KATE WILLIAMS

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa...
KATE WILLIAMS

I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a...
KATE WILLIAMS

Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow...
KATE WILLIAMS

I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
KATE WILLIAMS

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ...
KATE WILLIAMS

I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016...
KATE WILLIAMS

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m...
KATE WILLIAMS

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
KATE WALSH

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ...
KATE WALSH

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ...
KATE WALSH

I struggle with control.
KATE WALSH

I loved campaigning for Obama.
KATE WALSH

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH

I still like to make crank calls.
KATE WALSH

I would definitely love to be a parent.
KATE WALSH

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g...
KATE WALSH

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
KATE WALSH

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
KATE WALSH

I've done every diet there is.
KATE WALSH

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
KATE WALSH

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
KATE WALSH

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
KATE WALSH

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc...
KATE WALSH

I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
KATE WALSH

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
KATE WALSH

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
KATE WALSH

People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from...
KATE WALSH

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
KATE WALSH

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
KATE WALSH

I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
KATE WALSH

I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of...
KATE VOEGELE

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations....
KATE VOEGELE

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb...
KATE VOEGELE

I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
KATE VOEGELE

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song...
KATE VOEGELE

More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i...
KATE VOEGELE

I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ...
KATE VOEGELE

Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ...
KATE VOEGELE

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO

I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON

What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON

We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON

I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN

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!

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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!

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