Kathleen Turner

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

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

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.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

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.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

I'm not a New York snob.

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.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.

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.

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.