Quotes By Kathleen Turner

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I am certainly a liberal.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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

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

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

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'm not a New York snob.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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

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

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