Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

Kathy Bates's Popular Quotes

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

- Kathy Bates

I was never an ingenue. 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…

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I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

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When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said, "Oh, my daughter's such a big fan of the show." And I sa…

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I want to be defined by my own essence.

- Kathy Bates

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 differen…

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I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

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We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stori…

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I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

- Kathy Bates