Kathleen Turner Quotes

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Kathleen Turner

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 19, 1954

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

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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.

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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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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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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.

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I never took to Hollywood.

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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.

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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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I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

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

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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.

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I'm not a New York snob.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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