Quotes by Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates

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

Scripts

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

Comedy

Drama

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.

Attractive

Couches

Feminine

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

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Ugly

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

Bills

Pay

Soul

I haven’t talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don’t really want to define myself that way.

Cancer

Survivor

Want

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

Disappointing

Looks

Three

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.

Character

Empathy

Play

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.

Kings

New York

Thinking

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

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Quotes by Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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