136 Quotes by Kathleen Turner

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

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

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

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

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.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered

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

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