The Best of Kathy Bates

Annie Wilkes
"I'm your number one fan. There's nothing to worry about. You're going to be just fine. I will take good care of you. I'm your number one fan."

Roberta Hertzel
"People used to think it was strange 'cause I breast-fed him 'til he was almost five, but I say - hunh, just look at the results!"

Mrs. Helen Givings
"I remember the first day you came off the train. You weren't like my other clients. You were - different. You just seemed - special. - - Of course, you still are."

Sylvia Simon

Bobi Jewell
"Richard is not the Olympic Park bomber. Richard is not a murderer, he saved people's lives. Please hear me, Mr. President and help me. You have the power to end this nightmare. My son is a hero. I think the FBI knows that by now. If they do not intend to charge my son, please tell us; please tell the world. Mr. President please... Clear my son's name."

Molly Brown
"Ain't nothing to it, is there, Jack? Remember, they love money so pretend like you own a gold mine and then you're in the club."

Mama Boucher
"No son of mine is gonna play any foos-ball."

Jo Bennett
"When Mamma was working as a prison guard, and something went missing, she'd ask one question. What do we do when we find the guilty party? And if they said come down on them with that swift hammer of justice. Innocent. A clear conscience don't need no mercy. But if they said, Officer Bessy, well they may have had a reason, blah, blah, blah. Well nine times out of ten, that's the anus they check."

Gertrude Stein
"We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

Bankruptcy Judge
"The money, the property, the personal belongings, the things one acquires in one's life, Mr. Schlichtmann. The things by which one measures one's life. What happened?"