Kathleen Turner Quotes

• 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.

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• Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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• writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

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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?

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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.

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

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• The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

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• The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

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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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• My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat’s daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• I’m very practical. What I’m reaching for is individualism for women.

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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.

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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.

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• I’m not a New York snob.

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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.

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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 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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Kathleen Turner (43)

Birth:	19th June, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Mary Kathleen Turner, better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American film and stage actress and director. Turner came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, and Prizzi's Honor, the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the later 1980s and early 1990s, Turner had roles in The Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, Serial Mom and Peggy Sue Got Married, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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