Quotes By Kathleen Turner

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

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

I am certainly a liberal.

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

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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

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.

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

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

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.