Kathleen Turner Quotes
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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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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 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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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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I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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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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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
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I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
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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'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
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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 my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
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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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A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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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 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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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.