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Kathy Bates Quotes

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Kathy Bates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1948

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Mother Me Doctor Looking Thought

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

Jesse Eisenberg

Feel Need Own Radical Tried I Tried

A man is able to take me to a restaurant, but he's not able to take me home to mom. Society is still not at a place yet where they see us as family.

Angelica Ross

Family Home Man Me Mom Society

I have met people on the subway who have told me the most profound stories, and I am convinced we all have something to teach each other if we just slow down long enough to hear the message.

Amanda de Cadenet

I Am People Me Slow Enough Long

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from.

Spike Jonze

Thinking You Things Where Idea Fuel

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Tom Wilkinson

Character Think Clothes Street Him

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

Tom Hanks

Doing You Television Wrong Jokes

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.

Roberto Azevedo

Win Winning Think You Lose Country

I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Ruth Negga

Tough Plan More Never Need Star

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Rupert Grint

Better Famous Being Famous Wicked

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Mike Myers

People Me Trying Young Young People

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Mona Simpson

Job Better Long Now Run First

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

Chick Corea

Love Way Piano Songwriter Like Hear