Kathy Bates Quotes

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Kathy Bates

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Year
  • Months
  • Spend

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Up

• Never dress older than you are! The five wardrobe items you must have are a nice pair of well-fitting shoes, pajamas, sexy yet comfortable lingerie, a party dress in a bold colour and a jumpsuit.

  

  Elizabeth Jagger
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Shoes

• Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Revenge

• So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Revolution

• I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Mother