Kathy Bates Quotes

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

I love working with Oscar winners.

What I really want is an Oscar.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'

It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'

I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.

I'd love to one day win an Oscar just as much as one day I'd like to win a Grammy.