Kathy Bates Shares Her Life

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There is strength and accomplishment and then there is our next guest, Kathy Bates. She has hundreds of acting credits on stage and in film and television, and a formidable body of television directing work. She is an Academy Award winner and three-time nominee. She has fourteen Emmy nominations and two wins. She is a Tony Award nominee. An Obie Award winner. She has two Golden Globes Awards. Two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Two BAFTA nominations. There is no acting challenge she has not met and mastered. For the past several years, Bates has served as a Spokesperson for the Lymphatic Education and Research Network (LE&RN). LE&RN is an internationally recognized non-profit organization founded in 1998 to fight lymphatic diseases and lymphedema through education, research and advocacy. Listen in Kathy sits down to discuss growing up in the south, going to SMU, finding her voice on stage, her greatest roles and life as an actress. For more information: https://www.drphilintheblanks.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I watch you on YouTube.
0:02.0	Oh, great.
0:02.8	I really love watching people's expressions,
0:06.0	what they don't say, and that fascinates me.
0:09.2	I didn't like misery.
0:10.4	It scared you to be out of me.
0:11.5	When I was married, my ex-husband
0:13.2	said after he saw a misery that he
0:15.1	didn't see anything unusual up there on his way.
0:18.0	Now I'm working on American Horror Story,
0:20.0	and I never dreamt that I would have the opportunity
0:24.6	at this age to play roles of that magnitude and depth
0:28.5	and Ryan Murphy brought me back to life.
0:32.6	Well, if you can't tell from listening,
0:34.4	that was Kathy Bates.
0:36.5	And I've got to tell you, I don't get
0:38.4	story-eyed very easy, but when I started to do this podcast,
0:42.4	I was asked if you could talk to somebody in Hollywood
0:46.4	and actress that you just really, really admire,
0:50.0	who would it be?
0:51.3	It took me about a nanosecond to say Kathy Bates.
0:55.0	I'll tell you why I've never been able to catch her
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