About Kathleen Turner: Mary Kathleen Turner is an American film and stage actress and director.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
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.
A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
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.
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
I am certainly a liberal.
I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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.
I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
I never took to Hollywood.
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.
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
I'm not a New York snob.
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.
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.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
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.
