Kathleen Turner Quotes

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

Women are responsible for creating their own roles

Risk is the willingness to fail.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

I never took to Hollywood.

I am certainly a liberal.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.