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…

- Kathy Bates

I want to be defined by my own essence.

- Kathy Bates

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…

- Kathy Bates

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

- 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…

- Kathy Bates

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

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

- Kathy Bates

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…

- Kathy Bates