Kate Beckinsale Quotes
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
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Yes. When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.
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As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
