Kathleen Turner quotes Her role as Matty Walker in 'Body Heat' (1981) Born: 06/19/1954 Country: usa

• A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. (Kathleen Turner) [family/support/family]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [speak]
• At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. (Kathleen Turner)
• Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. (Kathleen Turner) [being/sex/attitude/men]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [pleasure/willpower/strongly]
• Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't. (Kathleen Turner) [more/women/writers/men]
• I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. (Kathleen Turner) [point/life/more/people]
• I am certainly a liberal. (Kathleen Turner)
• I am not telling people what to think or what to do. I don't claim to be an expert in any way at all, though I have my own viewpoint at times. (Kathleen Turner) [people/think/expert/viewpoint]
• I ask questions. I'm not pontificating. I'm not promoting any one agenda, which I think is wrong, since I'm an actress. (Kathleen Turner) [think]
• I didn't go to a McDonald's until I was 18. We suddenly ended up in Missouri with my mother's parents, and I went from feeling that I had the whole world to play in to feeling that I had lost everything. (Kathleen Turner) [parents/feeling/feeling]
• I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move. (Kathleen Turner)
• I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs. (Kathleen Turner) [money/luxury/needs]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [women/theatre/career]
• I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. (Kathleen Turner) [find/being]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [people]
• 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 world. (Kathleen Turner) [feeling/willpower/willpower]
• I have always been a great athlete, and suddenly to lose this portion of myself was devastating. (Kathleen Turner)
• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate. (Kathleen Turner) [health/support/system]
• I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. (Kathleen Turner) [desire/being]
• I hear of actresses who have stage fright, but I say, Let me start! Then I can fix anything. (Kathleen Turner) [stage/start]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [power/look/gay]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [more/stage/film]
• I never took to Hollywood. (Kathleen Turner)
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [women/stage/start]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [find/people/beach]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [think/tradition/respect/experience]
• I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? (Kathleen Turner) [think/mission/human]
• I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand. (Kathleen Turner) [people]
• 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. (Kathleen Turner) [character/child/abuse/abuse]
• I'm not a New York snob. (Kathleen Turner)

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