Kathleen Turner Quotes

"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
(Related: Ego, Reason, Risk)

"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
(Related: Women, Character, Abuse, Actions, Jobs)

"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
(Related: Mission)

"I'm not a New York snob."
- 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
(Related: Experience, Work, Body, Respect, Tradition)

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Politics, Work, Causes, Help)

"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."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Society, Father, Thought, Being, Honor, Old, Public)

"I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Women, Individualism)

"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: People, Want)

"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
(Related: Age, Money, Education, Health, People, Day, Film)

"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
(Related: Change)

"My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Father, Daughter, Present)

"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
(Related: HusbTruth, Act, Mind, Want)

"The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Fools)

"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
(Related: Education, Society, God, Children, Kids, Name)

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Women)

"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
(Related: People, Beach, Houses, Isolation)

"A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Family, Support, Woman)

"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Ability, Actors, Confidence)

"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
(Related: Money, Luxury, Needs)

"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."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Women, Production, Writers, Writing)

"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Age, Woman)

"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
(Related: Society, People, Community, Nothing, Taxes)

"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Mothers, Play)

"Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Men, Women, Sex, Attitude, Being, Symbol)

"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
(Related: Passion, Will)

"Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Men, Women, Writers)

"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Life, Thought, People, 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."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Act, Country, Dress)

"I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move."
- 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
(Related: Women, End, Hate, Play)

"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
(Related: Women, Building, Career, Theatre, Years)

"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Idea, Being, Teenagers, Today)

"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
(Related: People, Popular, Pressure)

"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
(Related: Brother, Feeling, Will, World)

"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Health, Admiration, Strangers, Support)

"I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Being, Desire, Play)

"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
(Related: Power, Gay, Man)

"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
(Related: Acting, Film)

"I never took to Hollywood."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Hollywood)

"I am certainly a liberal."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Liberal)

"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
(Related: Government, Life, Abortion, Choice, Decisions, Woman)