"I feel like I carry all the problems of the planet," he said. "Nuclear weapons, my fault. Slavery, my fault."
Turner seemed particularly amused that he was speaking at Harvard, since his application to the College was rejected.
"If I had come to college here, God knows what would have happened," he said.
Turner said he has given $100 million to Brown University, his alma mater, and also, last week, to his estranged wife of eight years, film star Jane Fonda.
"I gave my wife $100 million last week," he proclaimed. "$13 million of it went right here [to Harvard], goddammit, to a gender study."
Last week, Fonda announced that she was making a $12.5 million donation to Harvard's Graduate School of Education (GSE) to fund studies of gender and early child development.
The gift was the largest in the GSE's history.
"I want you to know that's my money, goddammit," Turner quipped.
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