Top 60 Kathleen Turner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.”

— Kathleen Turner

2. “I am certainly a liberal.”

— Kathleen Turner

3. “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”

— Kathleen Turner

4. “My greatest fear when we were doing “Body Heat” was that I wouldn’t be sexy. I didn’t have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.”

— Kathleen Turner

5. “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

6. “I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.”

— Kathleen Turner

7. “You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.”

— Kathleen Turner

8. “Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God’s mouth. That’s how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don’t think it should be exclusive or judgmental.”

— Kathleen Turner

9. “When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!”

— Kathleen Turner

10. “Professionally, I have no age.”

— Kathleen Turner

11. “The best role is always ahead.”

— Kathleen Turner

12. “I don’t see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn’t interfere with your life.”

— Kathleen Turner

13. “Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life’s challenges and learned from them.”

— Kathleen Turner

14. “Women are responsible for creating their own roles.”

— Kathleen Turner

15. “When I’m really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn’t look at me, he’s probably gay.”

— Kathleen Turner

16. “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

17. “My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat’s daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.”

— Kathleen Turner

18. “It’s fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely – at some point, to some extent, for some reason – on faith in our life. Whether it’s God or not, or “Please help me!””

— Kathleen Turner

19. “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

20. “I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.”

— Kathleen Turner

21. “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?”

— Kathleen Turner

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Kathleen Turner

25. “I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.”

— Kathleen Turner

26. “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

27. “My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.”

— Kathleen Turner

28. “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.”

— Kathleen Turner

29. “If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there’s been no reason not to try anything.”

— Kathleen Turner

30. “I’m very practical. What I’m reaching for is individualism for women.”

— Kathleen Turner

31. “I find the idea of today’s icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.”

— Kathleen Turner

32. “I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there’s a man who doesn’t look at me, it’s because he’s gay.”

— Kathleen Turner

33. “I don’t really go to YouTube or, especially, participate in Facebook. I just really don’t want to know that many people!”

— Kathleen Turner

34. “The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.”

— Kathleen Turner

35. “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

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

— Kathleen Turner

37. “There’s something so muffled about the way you experience things. It’s as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.”

— Kathleen Turner

38. “The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.”

— Kathleen Turner

39. “There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That’s doable.”

— Kathleen Turner

40. “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.”

— Kathleen Turner

41. “I never took to Hollywood.”

— Kathleen Turner

42. “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.”

— Kathleen Turner

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

— Kathleen Turner

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

— Kathleen Turner

45. “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

46. “Risk is the willingness to fail.”

— Kathleen Turner

47. “You know, when you’ve worked with somebody before and you’ve worked very deeply and dangerously then you start with the relaxation and the trust right away and that lets you go even deeper, which is a lovely thing.”

— Kathleen Turner

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

— Kathleen Turner

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

— Kathleen Turner

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

— Kathleen Turner