Kathy Bates Quotes (15 Quotes)

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

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

Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines.

I think it's the best thing for them, playing in honor of Brad, and I think they are focused completely on the game at this point that they do him proud. He would be upset if they didn't.

There's only maybe two pages in Jane's book that deals with the marriage because she was really talking only about her becoming an EMT and going through this midlife crisis, ... So when Alan Hines wrote the screenplay, he sat down with Michael Stern and really got down to the bottom of what was going on in that relationship. The work was there in the script.

They sent the material to me as an actress, ... I liked it so much, and I identified with the character and the script so much, I thought I don't want anybody else telling me what to do, so can I please direct this

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

We need to let black America know, we do want you, but we want you on the terms of the United States of America, ... And we want you to be full and complete human beings.

I am a very private person, ... Not shy exactly, but it takes me a very long time to make friends. I still have such a hard time navigating the waters out here.

The first few days on the set were sort of my trial by fire, ... Once you've set the scene, and you know the way you want to shoot it, and how you want to play it, you've got to get into the scene and forget everything else.

Bates had explored some of the themes of the story depression, overcoming fears before. Marriage, however, was newer territory. It's always presented either as the romance or the tragedy, ... We don't look too often at what marriage really is. Marriage masks thousands of different arrangements behind the scenes, it's all about change and negotiation and compromise. But we have the same attitudes toward marriage that we have toward death and dying we want to sanitize it.

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

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!

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

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.