Quotes By 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
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.
Kathleen Turner
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.
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 always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.
Kathleen Turner
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.
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 don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.
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
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.
Kathleen Turner
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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
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
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
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
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.
Kathleen Turner
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Kathleen Turner