Kathleen Turner Quotes

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

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Love
  • Better
  • Kings

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• My goal isn't to shock.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Goal
  • Shock

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Friend
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dead

• New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Job
  • City
  • New

• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Seriously

• Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Death
  • Before
  • Hardest

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • America

• Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

  

  Charles Williams
  • God
  • May
  • Job

• I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

  

  Charles Haley
  • Distance

• There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Miserable

• What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Moving

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

  

  Kathleen Turner