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Top 25 Kathy Bates Quotes (2024 Update)

Kathy Bates Quote: “I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.”

1. “I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “I’m not that conservative. I do feel – I guess I’m more of a Democrat at heart, although I’ve never affiliated myself with a particular party.”

2. “I’m not that conservative. I do feel – I guess I’m more of a Democrat at heart, although I’ve never affiliated myself with a particular party.”

— Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates Quote: “I haven’t talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don’t really want to define myself that way.”

3. “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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Kathy Bates Quote: “I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.”

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

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Kathy Bates Quote: “A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.”

5. “A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.”

6. “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, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.”

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

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Kathy Bates Quote: “Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.”

10. “Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Kathy Bates Quote: “The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.”

12. “The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “Alexander Payne’s very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.”

13. “Alexander Payne’s very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Kathy Bates Quote: “Drama comes more naturally to me. It’s the comedy you really have to delve into.”

15. “Drama comes more naturally to me. It’s the comedy you really have to delve into.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “I want to be defined by my own essence.”

16. “I want to be defined by my own essence.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Kathy Bates Quote: “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 Jack Nicholson. You can’t get any better than that!”

18. “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 Jack Nicholson. You can’t get any better than that!”

— Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates Quote: “I have always had a problem with my weight.”

19. “I have always had a problem with my weight.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Kathy Bates Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Kathy Bates Quote: “It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they’re serving and they’re giving and they’re enjoying and it’s part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.”

22. “It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they’re serving and they’re giving and they’re enjoying and it’s part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “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 the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.”

23. “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 the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.”

— Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates Quote: “I’m very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.”

24. “I’m very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.”

— Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates Quote: “I’m not a stunning woman.”

25. “I’m not a stunning woman.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.”

26. “I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.”

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Kathy Bates Quote: “I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don’t look three times as fat. That’ll be disappointing.”

27. “I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don’t look three times as fat. That’ll be disappointing.”

— Kathy Bates

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