Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an American actress and director. After appearing in several minor roles in film and television during the 1970s and the 1980s, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress; she also received a Golden Globe. She followed this with major roles in Fried Green Tomatoesand Dolores Claiborne, before playing a featured role as Molly Brown in Titanic, which was at the time the highest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 June 1948
CityMemphis, TN
CountryUnited States of America
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
I have always had a problem with my weight.
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 want to be defined by my own essence.
I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.
I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.
Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.
I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.
I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.