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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
Springfield
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Mary Kathleen Turner
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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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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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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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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
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You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man
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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 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 do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.
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I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
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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 am certainly a liberal.
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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 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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The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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