A biography for Katherine Waterstonhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I guess whatever the director's energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it's a hierarchy, and we're all kind of looking to the director for guidance.”
“I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.”
“I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.”
“There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.”
“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.”
“Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'”
“All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.”
“Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you've known them your whole life.”
“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.”
“For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.”
“I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.”
“Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.”
“About 10 minutes before I found out that I had landed 'Fantastic Beasts', I got a residual check in the mail for zero dollars. On the check it said 'Advice Slip.' And I was like, 'Well, what's the advice? Go into another line of work?”
“Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven't improved on over the years.”
“Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.”
“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.”