Kathy Bates Quotes

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

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

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.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

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.

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.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

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.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

I'm not a stunning woman.

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

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.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

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!

I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.

I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.

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.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I love everything. I love being the empathetic characters. I love being the villains. I think it's like when we're kids, we like to play all kinds of crazy characters and dress up.

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.