Kathy Bates Quotes

Acting should be an end in itself.

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.

The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them.

You've got to have a commitment to your craft.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

I love my craft.

I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.

That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.