About Kathleen Turner: Mary Kathleen Turner is an American film and stage actress and director.
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
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.
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.
A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
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.
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.
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
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?
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.
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.
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.
I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.
Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.
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.
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.
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.
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 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'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
