KATHLEEN TURNER

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

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.

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

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'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

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

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

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

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

I never took to Hollywood.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I am certainly a liberal.

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.

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.

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

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.