The Best Kathleen Turner quotes

Women are responsible for creating their own roles. — Kathleen Turner

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. — Kathleen Turner

I’m very practical. What I’m reaching for is individualism for women. — Kathleen Turner

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country’s well being. — Kathleen Turner

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. — Kathleen Turner

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

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful. — Kathleen Turner

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can’t. — Kathleen Turner

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that. — Kathleen Turner

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children. — Kathleen Turner

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

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner — Kathleen Turner

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

I don’t see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn’t interfere with your life. — Kathleen Turner

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

There’s something so muffled about the way you experience things. It’s as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged. — Kathleen Turner

God, no. quite the opposite. for a while i felt like half my life was making her wrongs right. — Kathleen Turner

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don’t understand Hollywood. — Kathleen Turner

It’s fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely–at some point, to some extent, for some reason–on faith in our life. Whether it’s God or not, or ‘Please help me! — Kathleen Turner

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

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society. — Kathleen Turner

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

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

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

I want people to like me. They don’t have to always like my characters, you understand. — Kathleen Turner

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

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That’s doable. — Kathleen Turner

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. — Kathleen Turner

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. — Kathleen Turner

I find the idea of today’s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. — Kathleen Turner

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

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

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

I’m not a New York snob. — Kathleen Turner

I was doIng a play–there was a scene where another actor was all over my character and f–––In’ bIt me, and I was lIke,whack! maybe he dIdn’t mean to, but he was takIng thIngs a lIttle far. — Kathleen Turner

The best role is always ahead. — Kathleen Turner