Love & Passion Quote by Kathleen Turner

Turner slices through the lazy math of celebrity desire: hotness equals sex symbol. Her point isn’t that looks don’t matter in Hollywood; it’s that looks are the entry ticket, not the engine. “Attitude” is a loaded, showbiz word - it means agency, appetite, command of the room, the calibrated willingness to be seen without seeming available. A sex symbol, in her framing, is less a body than a posture: the person who decides what the gaze gets, and on what terms.

The gender split she sketches is sharp, even a little mischievous. “Most men think it’s looks” isn’t a scientific claim so much as a jab at a consumer mindset: desire as visual shopping. “Most women know otherwise” flips the script with insider knowledge - women, trained early to navigate being looked at, understand the mechanics of projection. They’ve watched how confidence can read as erotic, how humor can function like foreplay, how indifference can magnetize. Turner is naming a cultural literacy that comes from surviving the gaze.

Context matters: Turner’s own stardom was forged in roles that weaponized voice, timing, and nerve (Body Heat, Romancing the Stone). Her sexuality on screen was never just “pretty”; it was assertive, slightly dangerous, adult. The subtext is a refusal to be reduced to a face and a figure - and a critique of the industry that sells women as visuals while punishing them for seeming too in control of the sale. She’s not demystifying sex appeal so much as relocating it: from the mirror to the will.