A Quote by Rod Lurie

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.

Rod Lurie

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Rod Lurie
Israeli - Director
Born: May 15, 1962

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

Kathy Bates

I grew up watching Kathy Bates, and 'Misery' is one of my favorite films.

Cody Fern

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.

Cody Fern

The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

Andrew Sarris

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

Anne-Marie Duff

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

Laura Dern

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."

Laura Dern

I'm just kind of in love with Kathy Bates. And Sarah Paulson.

Chrissy Metz

I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

Marcia Gay Harden

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

Sally Kirkland

I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.

Gene Wilder

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

Patty Duke

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

Patty Duke

Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

Joe Pesci

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them.

Larry Moss

There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

Cameron Diaz

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