Kathleen Turner Quotes
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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In those days, there was no money to buy books.
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God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
