Quotes By Kathleen Turner
A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
Kathleen Turner
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?
Kathleen Turner
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.
Kathleen Turner
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
Kathleen Turner