Katherine Waterston Quotes

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Katherine Waterston

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 3, 1980

What's comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don't have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to my sister, 'I had a bad one,' and she'll know exactly the profound audition humiliation I am describing.

Katherine Waterston

The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

Katherine Waterston

The only way my mother's beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it's never going to happen.

Katherine Waterston

I think there's an assumption when you have a parent in the business that you're given some kind of a cheat sheet at an early age. Some kind of upper hand or some kind of advanced understanding of how the whole thing functions - maybe how to operate within it. I never felt I received that cheat sheet and grew up pretty removed from the business.

Katherine Waterston

Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you've known them your whole life.

Katherine Waterston

Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.

Katherine Waterston

I think it's a luxury when you love the thing you're promoting, and then you don't have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.

Katherine Waterston

I love that feeling. I guess I love escaping my life, really. I love going into another world and feeling for this amount of time that this is it, this is the world I'm going to live in. You feel it more during the rehearsal process.

Katherine Waterston

You kind of wake up in the morning, and you don't see anybody but these actors until you go home at night and pass out and do it again. So it's structured a lot like the process when you're making a film. You just kind of get in that tunnel vision. I like that. I like when the rest of the world kind of quiets.

Katherine Waterston

It's just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot - not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that's rich and complicated and that you can show you're capable of taking on.

Katherine Waterston

I'm overly sentimental and don't throw things away.

Katherine Waterston

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.

Katherine Waterston

Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors - I recall seeing them on my dad's shoots and getting jealous.

Katherine Waterston

For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

Katherine Waterston

The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.

Katherine Waterston