Quotes By Kathleen Turner

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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'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.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I never took to Hollywood.

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.

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

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.

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

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