Kathy Bates Quotes
"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy."
[On losing the role of Frankie, which had been written for her by playwright
Terrence McNally, to
Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie version of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"] "I thought it was wonderful to see a love story about people over forty, ordinary people who were trying to connect. We haven't seen it before, and I don't think we will see it with this movie
Frankie and Johnny."
"When I was told
Terry Bradshaw would be playing my husband, I was like 'The star-quarterback Terry Bradshaw?'." [on playing Terry Bradshaw's movie wife in
Failure to Launch].
I was never an ingénue. 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.
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.
