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.
Kathleen Turner

Women, Men, Attitude

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

Family, Woman, Her

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

Greatest, Human, Become

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

Education, Age, Health

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

Age, Tired, Woman

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

Society, Father, Thought

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

Older, Less, Fools

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

Women, Men, Children

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

Country, Another, Speak

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
Kathleen Turner

Down, Play, Getting

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

Best, Live, Passion

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

Women, Men, Why

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

Life, Thought, Understand

I am certainly a liberal.
Kathleen Turner

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
Kathleen Turner

Cannot, Young, Move

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

Money, Enough, Needs

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

Good, Women, Great

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

Today, Find, Idea

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

Great, After, Become

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

Feeling, Brother, Knowing

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

Health, Wonderful, Support

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

Play, Desire, Offered

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

Power, Gay, Put

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

Acting, Alive, Film

I never took to Hollywood.
Kathleen Turner

Took, Hollywood

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Nationality: American

Born: July 19, 1954

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