Latest Kathy Bates Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Talking, Guy, Misery

  Source: guff.com

• 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

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

  Kathy Bates

  Years, Horror Stories, Watches

  Source: guff.com

• You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.

  Kathy Bates

  Yale, Years, People

  Source: guff.com

• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Scene, Gaga, Heard

  Source: guff.com

• 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

• I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, New York, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

• I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, Character, Thinking

  Source: guff.com

• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Kings, Play, Fans

  Source: guff.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.

  Kathy Bates

  Passion, Fighting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Kathy Bates

  Want, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Kathy Bates

  Roles, Force, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

  Kathy Bates

  Character, Past, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

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

  Kathy Bates

  Powerful, Ugly, Pursue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

  Kathy Bates

  Running, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.