“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.”

— Kathleen Turner

As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 241
Also quoted in The Observer London UK newspaper (28 December 1986)

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American actress 1954

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