Kathleen Turner Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Kathleen Turner:
I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
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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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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
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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 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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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'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 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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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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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
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I am certainly a liberal.
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I'm not a New York snob.
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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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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
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Women are responsible for creating their own roles.
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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.
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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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A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
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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 never took to Hollywood.
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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 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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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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I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 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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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'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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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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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 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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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.
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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
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The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
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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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