Kathleen Turner

“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 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 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.”

“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 theatr...”

“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.”

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

“At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.”

“I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.”

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

“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 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.”

“What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.”

“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.”

“I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?”

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

“I'm not a New York snob.”

“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 wo...”

“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.”