Kathy Baker Quotes

Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they?

There are two categories of actresses: performance-oriented ones and glamourous ones.

I probably marketed myself all wrong. I had exotic looks; I should have done those glamorous roles that exuded 'oomph.' But in my head, I was always an actress first.

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect; nobody is.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'

Acting is very immediate.

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.