Top 43 Quotes by Kathleen Turner

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'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.

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.

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.

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.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

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.

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 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.