Bates, Kathy Filmography

• The Great Gilly Hopkins
  2014, role: actress , character name: Maime Trotter
• Tammy
  2014, role: actress
• The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards
  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself - Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series & Presenter: Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
• 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Cadaver
  2012, role: actress , character name: Beth
• You May Not Kiss the Bride
  2011, role: actress , character name: Bryan's Mother
• A Little Bit of Heaven
  2011, role: actress , character name: Beverly Corbett
• Midnight in Paris
  2011, role: actress , character name: Gertrude Stein
• The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself - Nominee: Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Valentine's Day
  2010, role: actress , character name: Susan
• Stand Up to Cancer
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter: 'Avatar' Film Clip
• Chéri
  2009, role: actress , character name: Madame Peloux
• The Blind Side
  2009, role: actress , character name: Miss Sue
• First Comes Love
  2009, role: actress , character name: Grace
• Personal Effects
  2009, role: actress , character name: Gloria
• Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Premio Donostia a Ian McKellen
  2009, role: actress , character name: Miss Swaffer
• The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
  2009, role: actress , character name: Pancho Barnes
• The Family That Preys
  2008, role: actress , character name: Charlotte Cartwright
• Revolutionary Road
  2008, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Givings
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
  2008, role: actress , character name: Regina Jackson
• The Day the Earth Stood Still: T4 Movie Special
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• P.S. I Love You
  2007, role: actress , character name: Patricia
• Christmas Is Here Again
  2007, role: actress , character name: Miss Dowdy
• 2007 Britannia Awards
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Charlotte's Web: Some Voices
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Misery: Diagnosing Annie Wilkes
  2007, role: actress , character name: Annie Wilkes
• The Golden Compass
  2007, role: actress , character name: Hester
• Bee Movie
  2007, role: actress , character name: Janet Benson
• Fred Claus
  2007, role: actress , character name: Mother Claus
• Relative Strangers
  2006, role: actress , character name: Agnes Menure
• Charlotte's Web
  2006, role: actress , character name: Bitsy the Cow
• Life and Loss: The Impact of 'Six Feet Under'
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The People's President
  2006, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Have Mercy
  2006, role: actress
• Bonneville
  2006, role: actress , character name: Margene Cunningham
• Guilty Hearts
  2006, role: actress , character name: The Judge
• Have Mercy
  2006, role: director
• Solace
  2006, role: actress , character name: Marrows Wife
• Failure to Launch
  2006, role: actress , character name: Sue
• Ambulance Girl
  2005, role: director
• Warm Springs
  2005, role: actress , character name: Helena Mahoney
• Ambulance Girl
  2005, role: actress , character name: Jane Stern
• Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Rumor Has It...
  2005, role: actress , character name: Aunt Mitsy
• Hansel and Gretel
  2005, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero
  2005, role: actress , character name: Annie Wilkes

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."