Kathleen Turner Quotes

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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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Struggle
  • Strength
  • Where

• I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Ocean

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Television

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Man
  • Know
  • Admit

• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Like
  • Person

• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Museums
  • Furniture

• Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Gone
  • Fruit
  • Bloom

• I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • American
  • Try
  • Appearance

• Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Start
  • Him

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Think
  • Purpose

• Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • Die

• When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Lucky

• I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

  

  Lily King
  • Time
  • Real
  • Remember

• Ignorant people will believe anything if they’re scared enough.

  

  Anthony Ryan
  • Believe
  • Scared
  • Ignorant

• People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reason
  • Live Life
  • Runners

• 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