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

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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
Springfield
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Mary Kathleen Turner
Individualism
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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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You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man
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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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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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I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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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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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.
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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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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
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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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I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
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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
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I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
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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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If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.
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The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.
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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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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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I am certainly a liberal.
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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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