136 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?

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.

It never occurred to me that I couldn’t change things that needed changing or couldn’t have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.

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 do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

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 want people to like me. They don’t have to always like my characters, you understand.

I don’t think I’m anything like the improviser. I’m not. I do better with at least an outline.

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.