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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.

Kathleen Turner

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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
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Television Actor
Theatrical Director
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Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
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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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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 am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't
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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 always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood
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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
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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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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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I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.
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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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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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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 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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