Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after ‘Psycho’. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That’s part of why actors go from job to job – so they don’t have to live with the anxiety in the interim. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
We live in such hypersexualised yet totally prudish times. People have this expectation about everyone else’s relationship to their own bodies.’Surely you must have shame about your body? Surely what’s scariest for you as actor would be to stand in a room naked?’ Believe me, I’ve been in so many more terrifying situations as a performer than that. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I wonder sometimes if I’ve got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I’m constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don’t know. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
When you are the kid of an actor, it’s always a very inviting world. Everyone is nice to you, the hair and make-up people braid your hair and play with you, and the costume department makes outfits for your teddy bears. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I’ve always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it’s hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I’m pretty shy. I don’t really like a lot of attention. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I was devastated when they stopped making sailors’ pants with bell bottoms. There’s something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man’s gait. They project something good-natured. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life. Katherine Waterston Read Quote
