Kathleen Turner Quotes

• 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.

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• C’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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• 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.

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• I never took to Hollywood.

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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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• 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.

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• I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

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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.

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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.

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• Cthe Stone came out and I’d become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

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• I find the idea of today’s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

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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.

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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.

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• I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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• I am certainly a liberal.

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

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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.

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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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• 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

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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