Quotes from Kathleen Turner

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.

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

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.

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

Professionally, I have no age.

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.

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

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I am certainly a liberal.

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 don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.