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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
Kathleen Turner
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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
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Mary Kathleen Turner
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More quotes by 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 big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner
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
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
Kathleen Turner
I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.
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
Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.
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 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 love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.
Kathleen Turner
My greatest fear when we were doing Body Heat was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.
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
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
Kathleen Turner
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
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
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 always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.
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 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
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
