Kathy Bates Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
• 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…
• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
• 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,…
• Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
• 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…
• I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
• Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
• I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.
• 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…
• 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…
• Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
• 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…
• I have always had a problem with my weight.
• I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
• I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
• I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
• I want to be defined by my own essence.

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