Kathy Bates
Actress
1948-06-28
Kathy Bates is an American actress known for Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Dolores Claiborne. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Misery.
Books by Kathy Bates
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The Silence of the Lambs
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Quotes by Kathy Bates
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I'm not a stunning woman.
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I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
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When I first went to interview for 'Misery,' they were saying things like, 'You're not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.' And I just don't get the relevance of that remark. I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I'm not Sean Connery.
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When Aretha Franklin came on the radio when I was in college, we would stop the car, throw open the doors, jump out, and dance.
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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.
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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.
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I used to play guitar years ago. It brought me a lot of pleasure when I was a teenager growing up and was having tough times.
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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.
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I got my SAG card quite unexpectedly. I was here in Los Angeles doing a play called 'Vanities' - it was 1976, I believe - and I got invited by Dustin Hoffman, whom I'd met in New York, to come audition for a movie he was directing.
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I'm always so nervous when I have to do interviews or be on 'The Tonight Show' or the 'Oprah' show, where I have to be myself. I don't know why that's such a big deal - being yourself. But for some reason, I feel good in a dark room talking to actors about acting, doing acting. I like sitting backstage watching people work.
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