Kathy Bates famous quotes

07-12-2025

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
-- Kathy Bates

#Heart #Want
The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.
-- Kathy Bates

#Eggs #Two #Three
I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.
-- Kathy Bates

#Life Changing #Years #Crafts
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.
-- Kathy Bates

#Book #Secret #Library
I have always had a problem with my weight.
-- Kathy Bates

#Weight #Problem
I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
-- Kathy Bates

#Soul #Pay #Bills
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
-- Kathy Bates

#Cancer #Survivor #Want
I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
-- Kathy Bates

#Three #Looks #Disappointing
I want to be defined by my own essence.
-- Kathy Bates

#Essence #Want
I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
-- Kathy Bates

#Real #Character #People
I'm not a stunning woman.
-- Kathy Bates

#Stunning
I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
-- Kathy Bates

#Party #Heart #Conservative
I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.
-- Kathy Bates

#Lucky #Able
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
-- Kathy Bates

#Long #Challenges #Roles
Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
-- Kathy Bates

#Drama #Comedy
And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.
-- Kathy Bates

#Thinking #Careers #People
Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.
-- Kathy Bates

#Cancer #Thinking #People
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
-- Kathy Bates

#Perspective #Scripts #Wonderful
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
-- Kathy Bates

#People #Salary #Oscars
I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.
-- Kathy Bates

#Mother #Nice #Eye
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
-- Kathy Bates

#Wings #Agents #Oscars
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
-- Kathy Bates

#Character #Play #Empathy
I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
-- Kathy Bates

#Character #Trying #Fit
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
-- Kathy Bates

#Scripts
I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.
-- Kathy Bates

#Thinking #Environment
After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
-- Kathy Bates

#Winning #Scary #Would Be
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
-- Kathy Bates

#Mother #Doctors #Stories

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