Kathy Bates movie quotes

“Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.”
Kathy Bates

“- Selena St. George: That is the last guy in the world you want to make an enemy out of.
- Dolores Claiborne: I ain't makin' one, I'm keepin' one.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Selena St. George
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“I am a gaylesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!”

Kathy Bates - Libby Holden

“- Emma Tate: We do not belong to the starving class!
- Ella Tate: There's no such thing as a starving class.
- Emma Tate: There is so. There's a starving class people and we're not part of it!”
Kristin Fiorella - Emma Tate
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate

“- Evelyn Couch: Ed... If I'd answered the door wearing only cellophane, would you still be watching the baseball game?
- Ed Couch: No, honey, I'd probably be checking you into a loony bin.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch
Gailard Sartain - Ed Couch

“- Dolores Claiborne: I got another surprise for you, Joe.
- Joe St. George: What, did someone invent a pill to cureugly?”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne
David Strathairn - Joe St. George

“- Mother Claus: Nicholas, where are you going?
- Young Nick: There's a poor orphan named Henry who lives down the road. I'm bringing all my gifts to him. He needs them more than I.”
Kathy Bates - Mother Claus
Theo Stevenson - Young Nick

“- Miss Hannigan: Just let me make sure I heard you right Miss Personal Secretary to The Oliver Warbucks. My Annie is going to be adopted by your millionaire?
- Miss Grace Farrell: Actually, he's a billionaire.”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan
Audra McDonald - Grace Farrell

“- Sue: We were good parents and now we're supposed to be done!
- Male BBQ Guest #1: Hey, I don't blame my kid for stayin'. Our place is much nicer than anything he can afford.
- Male BBQ Guest #2: Well, our son's a flight attendant. He travels so much, it doesn't make any sense to have his own apartment.
- Female BBQ Guest: Plus, he has a lot of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Bates - Sue
E.L. James - Male BBQ Guest #1
Stewart Skelton - Male BBQ Guest #2
Sarah Lilly - Female BBQ Guest

“Some women are drippin' with diamonds, some are drippin with pearls. Lucky me, look what I'm drippin' with: little girls!”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“- Meg Bethune: Do you know what they did with his underwear? They ran it up the flag pole just to humilate him. And he gets up and goes back there every single day. Don't you tell me I don't know how strong my son is. I know. And if he wants to go to any God damn school where kids won't slap their belly every time he walks by, then he damn well...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kathy Bates - Meg Bethune
George C. Scott - Grandpa Ivan

“- Maurine Collier: I was taught to honor your father and mother. That's what I've tried to teach... I guess I'm not good enough to deserve that kind of respect!
- Karen Collier: Of course you are.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier

“- Lily: Oliver Warbucks... the millionaire?
- Miss Hannigan: No, the billionaire, you dumb hotel.”
Kristin Chenoweth - Lily St. Regis
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“Hit the road, Tripp, and don't ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road, Tripp, and don't ya come back no more.”

Terry Paxton Bradshaw - Al
Kathy Bates - Sue

“I did not murder that bitch any more than I'm wearing a diamond tiara.”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“- Sue: Is there anything that we need to do?
- Paula: Well, for starters, you could make life a little more difficult for him. You know, more chores, more responsibilities, that kind of thing.
- Sue: I just think you should know that Tripp has had some rough breaks.
- Paula: I promise you, when this is over, Tripp is going to be an independant,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Bates - Sue
Sarah Jessica Parker - Paula

“- Evelyn Couch: I can't even look at my own vagina!
- Ninny Threadgoode: Well I can't help you on that one honey.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch
Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode

“It's not your fault - it's men! Testosterone! They should put it in bombs.”

Kathy Bates - Det. Shirley Vogel

“I never could stand people who keep sayin' they're gonna go and then they never do.”
Kathy Bates - Stella Mae

“I hate that kid so much I could be her mother.”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“- Frances Lacey: Are you a praying man, Mr. Moon?
- Mr. Munimura: I'm a failed Catholic, but yes.
- Frances Lacey: We're not religious either, but a taste of it couldn't hurt, and who knows? It might take on one of these heathens.”
Kathy Bates - Frances Lacey
Soon-Tek Oh - Mr. Munimura

“- Sue: You're gonna have to start deviating. He's breaking up with you.
- Paula: What?
- Sue: The only reason he ever brings girls home to meet us is 'cause he's gettin' ready to dump 'em.”
Kathy Bates - Sue
Sarah Jessica Parker - Paula

“- Annie: I thought you hated your job.
- Miss Hannigan: No, I love my job; it's kids I hate.”
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“You know what this is? It's a curse. I can feel it. Goes back in back to little cells and genes. It's tiny little swimming things just making up their minds without us. Plotting in the womb. Before that even, in the air... we pass it on. We inherit it. And pass it down. Just goes on and on like that. Without us.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate