Quotes from Kathleen Turner

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

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.

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

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 have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

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 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.

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 can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

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.

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 don't really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don't want to know that many people!

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

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

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 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.

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 am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

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.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.