Kathleen Turner Quotes

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Kathleen Turner

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 19, 1954

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

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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

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

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

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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.

Kathleen Turner

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

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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.

Kathleen Turner

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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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.

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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.

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

Kathleen Turner

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

Kathleen Turner

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

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

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I am certainly a liberal.

Kathleen Turner

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.

Kathleen Turner

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.

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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 is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

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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 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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