Kathleen Turner Quotes
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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
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My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.
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I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered
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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.
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I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs
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I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
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There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.
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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.
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I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood
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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
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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
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I don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!
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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.
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When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
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I am certainly a liberal.
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The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children
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Women are responsible for creating their own roles
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't
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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.
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I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.
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When I'm really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.
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The best role is always ahead.
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One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.
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Professionally, I have no age.
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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
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