Kathy Bates Quotes

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I love motion-capture, because you're just free. It's like when you're a little kid, and you say, "Okay, we're the army men. We're going over the mountain." Or, in this case, "We're walking through the swamp" or "Walking through the casino." And it's just a blank room.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

What I love most about acting is being able to play different types of personalities without being considered crazy.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!