Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
I always have to sort of fall in love with my characters. When I work on these characters, I just try to make them very real and grounded in the world. It's just the regular work that I do on a character with the director, trying to find out who this woman is and what's her backstory.
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.
I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.
I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
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!
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.
Just purely from the craft point of view, I'm very proud of Dolores Claiborne. In terms of the acting craft and having to play a character at different ages and the movements and make-up-I'm really proud of that one.
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.
Kathy won a CFCA Award for Best Actress in the movie, Misery in 1991.
Kathy was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
Kathy has two younger sisters name Patricia and Mary.
Kathy's Oscar winning role in Misery (1990) was originally offered to Anjelica Huston.
Kathy presented Anthony Hopkins his Best Actor Oscar award in 1992 for Silence of the Lambs.
Kathy was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2002 for her role as the sex-crazed mother-in-law in About Schmidt. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the same film in the same category as well.
Bates is the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governers.
The average Gross of each movie Kathy Bates stars in is $57,379,428 (US).
Kathy's performance in Misery as the crazed fan gone sadistic, ranked #77 in Premiere magazine's list of 100 greatest movie characters of all time.
Kathy won the Obie award for her portrayal of the weary love-sick waitress in the play Frankie & Johnny in the Clair De Lune, a part that was written especially for her.
Kathy was nominated for a Razzie award in 1995 for her role in North, as 'Worst Supporting Actress'.
Kathy won an American Comedy award in 1997 for her role in The Late Shift, about the late night talk show host feud between Jay Leno and David Letterman to fill Johnny Carson's vacant seat.
Kathy has been nominated for an Emmy award Seven times.
Kathy's nickname from friends and family is 'BoBo'.
Kathy was nominated for a Tony award in 1983, for her role in the Broadway play 'Night, Mother.
Kathy is the secretary for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Board of Governors.
Kathy graduated from White Station high school in Memphis, TN.
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