Kathy Bates Quotes

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

  Kathy Bates

  Heart, Mind, Experience

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Kathy Bates

  Life Changing, Years, Crafts

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

  Kathy Bates

  Powerful, Ugly, Pursue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• I want to be defined by my own essence.

  Kathy Bates

  Essence, Want, My Own

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

  Kathy Bates

  Soul, Pay, Bills

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

  Kathy Bates

  Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Energy, Enough Time, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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, Actors

  "Kathy Bates Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN, Working with other Talented Women, Her Cruel Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 4, 2014.

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• 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

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Fans, Horror, Genre

  Source: guff.com

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• 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

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, Thinking, Two

  Source: guff.com

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Feminine, Attractive, Couches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Teenager, School, Guitar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I said, "Can I meet her?" And around the corner came this seven-year-old. I was horrified and I almost said to her, "Lady, what are you doing? [American Horror Story] is not for seven-year-olds, I can tell you."

  Kathy Bates

  Daughter, Years, Horror Stories

  Source: guff.com

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Stars, Powerful, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Crazy, Character, Kids

  Source: guff.com

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

  Kathy Bates

  Wings, Agents, Oscars

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• The relationship to the director is becoming more crucial to me, making sure there are some common goals. I haven't been in the kind of position where my roles have been chosen for me, where someone says, "First we'll do this and then we'll do this," and it's all part of some master plan.

  Kathy Bates

  Goal, Directors, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Kathy Bates

  Drama, Comedy

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• The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.

  Kathy Bates

  Jobs, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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