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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

Kathleen Turner

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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
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I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.
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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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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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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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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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The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.
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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 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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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 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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I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.
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I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
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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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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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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 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 am certainly a liberal.
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You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man
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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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