Kathleen Turner Quotes

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

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

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

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

When I'm really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

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 learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost - but I really want a good life. I've been married for 17 years - I know, they call us the last couple. I have a 13-year-old daughter. I have a lovely home life with good friends who aren't in the business... and I have no desire to cost my whole life in pursuit of the career alone.

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'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

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 never took to Hollywood.

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.

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 think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

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?

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.

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

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

I am certainly a liberal.

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

It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!"

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

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

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

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

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

The best role is always ahead.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

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

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

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

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

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

I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles

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

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