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

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

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

When I'm really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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?

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

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

One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.

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.

Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.

I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

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.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Risk is the willingness to fail.

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

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

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

The best role is always ahead.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

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 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.

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.

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.