Kathy Bates movie quotes

“I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.”
Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch

“Hell ain't somethin' you get thrown into overnight. Nope. Real hell comes on you slow and steady as a line of wet winter sheets.”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“- Lily: Ms. Lily St. Regis. I was named after the hotel.
- Miss Hannigan: Which floor?”

Kristin Chenoweth - Lily St. Regis
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“- Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.: Mama, Vicky is an astrologist.
- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: I don't believe in that sort of thing personally. Astrology is one of the many tools of the devil.”
Adam Sandler - Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

You don't have what they call "the social skills". That's why you never have any friends, 'cept fo' yo' mama.
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

“- Miss Hannigan: Annie, tell these people how good I've always been to ya!
- Annie: Miss Hannigan, I would. But the one thing you always taught me was... Never tell a lie.”
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett

“- Young Bobby Boucher: Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!”
Jamie Williams - Young Bobby Boucher
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

“People used to think it was strange because I breast-fed him until he was almost five, but I say just look at the results!”

Kathy Bates - Roberta Hertzel

“- Uncle Howe: I always say, you give me forty-five minutes and a Bible and I can prove conclusively that Noah's Ark could not have been in Turkey!
- Brenda: Oh, he can.
- Maurine Collier: I should study my Bible more.”
Lane Smith - Uncle Howe
Renée Estevez - Brenda
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“- Dolores Claiborne: You must have boyfriends. Beautiful girl like you, smart and out in the world... You tellin' me there's nobody?
- Selena St. George: I'm telling you there's a lot of nobodies.”
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Selena St. George

“- Joe St. George: What are you talking about, I never touched Selena!
- Dolores Claiborne: Oh yeah? Well then how come you're making a face like the devil just reached down and grabbed those little raisins you call balls?”
David Strathairn - Joe St. George
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“- Nicole Horner: Come on, she's not a murderer. She's an ex-nun, for Christ's sake!
- Det. Shirley Vogel: I remember them. They disappeared overnight like dial phones.”

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

“- Maurine Collier: I just don't understand what went wrong. His whole life he was so grown-up, so polite.
- Karen Collier: War changes people.
- Maurine Collier: War doesn't make you rude to your parents!”

Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier

“- Jack Dawson: Are these all for me?
- Molly Brown: Just start from the outside and work your way in.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jack Dawson
Kathy Bates - Molly Brown

“- Ella Tate: We're not rich, we're not poor.
- Wesley Tate: What are we, then?
- Ella Tate: Somewhere in between.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
Henry Thomas - Wesley Tate

“- Ella Tate: I've been to jail, like I said.
- Weston Tate: On visit?
- Ella Tate: Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.
- Weston Tate: What?
- Ella Tate: Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
James Woods - Weston Tate

“- Dolores Claiborne: How is that going to help?
- Selena St. George: Because in ten minutes, I'm gonna be fine.
- Dolores Claiborne: Selena...
- Selena St. George: Just give me ten minutes!”

Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Selena St. George

“- Kid on street: Hey, Miss Claiborne! Kill anyone else today?
- Dolores Claiborne: Not just yet, when I change my mind I'll know exactly where to start.”
Thomas Skinner - Kid on street
Kathy Bates - Dolores Claiborne

“- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: Bobby, deh ever catch dat gorilla that busted outa da zoo and punched you in da eye?
- Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.: No Mama, the search continues.”
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher
Adam Sandler - Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr.

“My idea of the Heaven is a place where they screw you barefoot!”
Kathy Bates - Det. Shirley Vogel

“I wasn't screaming. I was using my loud voice.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“Rooster, you're the only con I know who can con a cop.”

Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“Unless we're going to have a nuclear attack of some kind, it's hard to imagine what else could go wrong.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier