Kate Beckinsale Quotes

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.

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Long
  • American
  • Beach

• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Loved

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Education
  • Devil

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Moon

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • City
  • Acceptance

• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Important
  • Think
  • Television

• 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
  • Think
  • Action
  • Myself