I’m always so nervous when I have to do interviews or be on ‘The Tonight Show’ or the ‘Oprah’ show, where I have to be myself. I don’t know why that’s such a big deal – being yourself. But for some reason, I feel good in a dark room talking to actors about acting, doing acting. I like sitting backstage watching people work. Kathy Bates Read Quote
I got my SAG card quite unexpectedly. I was here in Los Angeles doing a play called ‘Vanities’ – it was 1976, I believe – and I got invited by Dustin Hoffman, whom I’d met in New York, to come audition for a movie he was directing. Kathy Bates Read Quote
Misery’ left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be ‘Kathy ‘Misery’ Bates Is Dead.’ Kathy Bates Read Quote
People will come up, and they’ll talk about ‘Misery.’ But a lot of people will talk about ‘Waterboy.’ Kathy Bates Read Quote
I’ve been in the business for so long that I don’t sit home and look at my awards. Kathy Bates Read Quote
I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me. Kathy Bates Read Quote
