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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
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Mary Kathleen Turner
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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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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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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 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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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
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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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The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.
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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 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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There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.
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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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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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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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The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
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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 don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs
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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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