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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
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Theatrical Director
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Mary Kathleen Turner
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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 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 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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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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I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.
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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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Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
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I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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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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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 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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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 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 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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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 always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood
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The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.
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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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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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