Kathy Bates movie quotes

“I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.”
Kathy Bates

“Face it ladies, I'm older and I have more insurance.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch

“- Miss Hannigan: I don't know whatever I'd do without you.
- Annie: Scrub the floors yourself?”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett

“All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, that's his.”
Kathy Bates - Aunt Mitsy

“Go ahead, Joe! All I ask is that you do it quick, and don't let Selena see the mess when it's over! You wanna run me down, go ahead. You can be as mean and hurtful as you want, but this is the last time you will ever hit me! You do it again, one of us is goin' to the boneyard!”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“If you wanna know what kind of life a person had, just look at their hands.”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“They have lots of body parts. Arms and legs and hands, from hospitals and medical schools. And do you know where they store 'em? Right underneath the football field. So while it's fine and dandy to have 100,000 fans cheering for you, the bodies you should be worried about are the ones right under the turf. Set to poke up through the ground and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Bates - Miss Sue

“- Bobi Jewell: Why do you keep defending them?
- Richard Jewell: I'm not defending, just explaning.
- Bobi Jewell: Well, stop it!”
Kathy Bates - Bobi Jewell
Paul Walter Hauser - Richard Jewell

“The country isn't ready. Change minds first. Then change the law.”
Kathy Bates - Dorothy Kenyon

“- Det. Shirley Vogel: What about you? What if he wouldn't leave her?
- Nicole Horner: Honey, if I couldn't get a man to leave her I wouldn't kill him, I'd kill myself.”

Kathy Bates - Det. Shirley Vogel
Sharon Stone - Nicole Horner

“So you can just go and fuck yourself. That is if you can get that limp old noodle of yours to stand up.”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“You know the worst thing for a parent... second after losing a child? Watching your child head for the same life you had. You can't stop it. It's a terrible, helpless feeling. Makes you angry all the time. And I've been angry. For a very long time. I'm exhausted.”
Kathy Bates - Patricia

“- Det. John Mackey: I'm sorry, but I think it's for the best if you got yourself some legal representation.
- Dolores Claiborne: You're sorry, are you? Bet the last time you were sorry was when you needed to use the pay toilet and the string on your pet dime broke.”
Christopher Plummer - Det. John Mackey
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“You already know how famously they get along as friends, but did you know that their sex life is positively white hot? The main reason both of my marriages failed was sexual. I'm an extremely sexual person, I can't help it, it's just how I'm wired, you know, even when I was a little girl. I had my first orgasm when I was 6 in ballet class.”
Kathy Bates - Roberta Hertzel

“- Prostitute #1: This is Irmy, she's with the circus. She needs a place to flop tonight.
- Prostitute #2: What do you do in the circus, huh?
- Irmy: I'm a sword-swallower.
- Prostitute #3: Oh, a sword-swallower, that's my specialty, too.”
Lily Tomlin - Prostitute
Mia Farrow - Irmy
Jodie Foster - Prostitute
Kathy Bates - Prostitute

“All alone or not, you got to walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.”
Kathy Bates - Patricia

“- Miss Hannigan: Now, have I ever spanked any of ya?
- Annie: No, but you've threatened, and that's worse.”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett

“Franklin, I can't help you out of a hole if I climb in with you.”
Kathy Bates - Helena Mahoney

“- Evelyn Couch: That's a low cholesterol meal. Happy Valentine's.
- Ed Couch: God! Are you trying to kill me?”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch
Gailard Sartain - Ed Couch

“- Stella Mae: Christ, anybody can be happy. Look at me, I laugh my ass off all the damn time. You know, I'll laugh at just about anything.
- Edna Louise: You're not happy.
- Stella Mae: I'm happy Goddammit!”
Kathy Bates - Stella Mae
Marta Heflin - Edna Louise

“- Jeremy Collier: The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
- Maurine Collier: Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
- Jeremy Collier: Oh no, they weren't.”

Emilio Estevez - Jeremy Collier
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“If you say you're sorry one more time, I'll kick your butt up so high, you'll look like a hunchback.”

Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.”
Kathy Bates

“For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.”
Kathy Bates

“I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play.”
Kathy Bates