Top 35 Kathleen Turner Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I never took to Hollywood.

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

I am certainly a liberal.

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

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.

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

I’m not a New York snob.

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.

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

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

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