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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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Kathleen Turner
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Voice Actor
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Mary Kathleen Turner
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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 think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones
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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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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 am certainly a liberal.
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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 am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
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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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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
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The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
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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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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
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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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Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.
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Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
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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 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 do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.
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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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