Bates, Kathy Filmography

• 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2012)
• The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (2012)
• Starbright (2012)
• Cadaver (2012)
• Midnight in Paris (2011)
• You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
• The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011)
• A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
• Stand Up to Cancer (2010)
• The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
• Valentine's Day (2010)
• Personal Effects (2009)
• First Comes Love (2009)
• Chéri (2009)
• Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road (2009)
• Premio Donostia a Ian McKellen (2009)
• The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (2009)
• The Blind Side (2009)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still: T4 Movie Special (2008)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• The Family That Preys (2008)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
• Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo (2008)
• The Golden Compass (2007)
• P.S. I Love You (2007)
• Bee Movie (2007)
• Charlotte's Web: Some Voices (2007)
• Christmas Is Here Again (2007)
• Misery: Diagnosing Annie Wilkes (2007)
• Fred Claus (2007)
• Solace (2006)
• Bonneville (2006)
• Relative Strangers (2006)
• Failure to Launch (2006)
• Guilty Hearts (2006)
• Life and Loss: The Impact of 'Six Feet Under' (2006)
• Have Mercy (2006)
• Have Mercy (2006)
• The People's President (2006)
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005)
• Ambulance Girl (2005)
• Ambulance Girl (2005)
• Warm Springs (2005)
• Hansel and Gretel (2005)
• Rumor Has It... (2005)
• San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero (2005)
• Six Feet Under: In Memoriam (2005)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
• The Ingrate (2004)
• The Ingrate (2004)
• Premiere Women in Hollywood Awards (2004)
• Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004)
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
• Little Black Book (2004)
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
• TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (2003)
• Declaration of Independence (2003)
• Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
• The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
• The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
• The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003)
• 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2003)
• Fargo (2003)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003)
• The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
• Dragonfly (2002)
• Misery Loves Company (2002)
• My Sister's Keeper (2002)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Unconditional Love (2002)
• Love Liza (2002)
• Rat Race (2001)
• Independence Day 2001 (2001)
• American Outlaws (2001)
• Bruno (2000)
• Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (2000)
• Dash and Lilly (1999)
• The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999)
• Annie (1999)
• The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999)
• The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999)
• The 56th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1999)
• Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)
• 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999)
• Baby Steps (1999)
• Titanic: Breaking New Ground (1998)
• A Civil Action (1998)
• Femmes Fatales: Sharon Stone (1998)
• Primary Colors (1998)
• The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998)
• The Effects of Magic (1998)
• The Waterboy (1998)
• 'Fried Green Tomatoes': The Moments of Discovery (1998)
• To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th (1998)
• Titanic (1997)
• Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (1997)
• The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1997)
• Swept from the Sea (1997)
• The 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1996)
• The Late Shift (1996)
• The War at Home (1996)
• Diabolique (1996)
• The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful (1996)
• Dolores Claiborne (1995)
• Angus (1995)
• The West Side Waltz (1995)
• North (1994)
• Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
• The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)
• A Home of Our Own (1993)
• The American Film Institute Salute to Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
• Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun (1993)
• The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993)
• NYPD Blue (1993)
• Laughing Back: Comedy Takes a Stand (1992)
• The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1992)
• In a New Light: A Call to Action in the War Against AIDS (1992)
• Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992)
• Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
• The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1992)
• Hostages (1992)
• The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)
• Used People (1992)
• The 49th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1992)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
• The 63rd Annual Academy Awards (1991)
• Shadows and Fog (1991)
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
• The Road to Mecca (1991)
• The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1991)
• White Palace (1990)
• Men Don't Leave (1990)
• Misery (1990)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Signs of Life (1989)
• Roe vs. Wade (1989)
• No Place Like Home (1989)
• High Stakes (1989)
• Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
• Murder Ordained (1987)
• Summer Heat (1987)
• Johnny Bull (1986)
• The Morning After (1986)
• Two of a Kind (1983)
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
• Straight Time (1978)
• Taking Off (1971)
• All My Children (1970)
• The Doctors (1963)

Famous quotes by Kathy Bates:

"I think it's the best thing for them, playing in honor of Brad, and I think they are focused completely on the game at this point that they do him proud. He would be upset if they didn't."

"It's the game Brad loved, and he would have wanted us to play."

"We need to let black America know, we do want you, but we want you on the terms of the United States of America, ... And we want you to be full and complete human beings."

"For me as a director, it was important to create this couple as truthfully as I possibly could. Because as she's becoming more comfortable with her new life and her newfound freedom, their professional life is falling apart."

"They sent the material to me as an actress, ... I liked it so much, and I identified with the character and the script so much, I thought: I don't want anybody else telling me what to do, so can I please direct this?"

"That really happened when Robin came on board, ... He wanted Michael [Stern] to be a real man, not just some accessory to Jane."

"It makes you look at your priorities,"

"[The first few days on the set were] sort of my trial by fire, ... Once you've set the scene, and you know the way you want to shoot it, and how you want to play it, you've got to get into the scene and forget everything else."

"what informs her, both as an actress and as a director, is that she's a keen observer of the human condition."

"Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings."

"I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage."

"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 - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period."

"Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them."

"Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines."

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy."

"It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!"

"I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented."