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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.

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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that
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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.
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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children
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I never took to Hollywood.
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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
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I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
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When I'm really hot, I can walk into a room and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay.
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I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
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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.
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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!
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I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.
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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?
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