Kathleen Turner Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Kathleen Turner Quotes and Sayings


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    A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I am certainly a liberal. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I never took to Hollywood. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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? Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I'm not a New York snob. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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? Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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    Women are responsible for creating their own roles. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF
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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. Kathleen Turner | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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