Quotes By 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.

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.

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

I never took to Hollywood.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

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.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

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.

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.

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

I am certainly a liberal.

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

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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.

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

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

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'm not a New York snob.

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