Katherine Waterston Quotes

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Katherine Waterston

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 3, 1980

If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye.

Katherine Waterston

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.

Katherine Waterston

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

Katherine Waterston

I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

Katherine Waterston

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

Katherine Waterston

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Katherine Waterston

People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.

Katherine Waterston

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

Katherine Waterston

I've always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it's hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I'm pretty shy. I don't really like a lot of attention.

Katherine Waterston

I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it's just something that you feel - a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them.

Katherine Waterston

I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.

Katherine Waterston

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

Katherine Waterston

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

Katherine Waterston

I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

Katherine Waterston

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

Katherine Waterston

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

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I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Katherine Waterston

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

Katherine Waterston

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Katherine Waterston

I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.

Katherine Waterston