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

The Silence of the Lambs
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Quotes by Kathy Bates

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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