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" Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment. "
Frances McDormand
Struggle
Getting Older
Easy
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" Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter. "
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" I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did. "
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" I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. "
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" I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. "
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" I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.' "
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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "
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" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "
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" I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want. "
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Think
Want
" I never trusted good-looking boys. "
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Never
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" I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. "
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" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "
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" If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. "
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" All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer. "
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" I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will. "
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" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "
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" We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. "
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" The only power you have is the word no. "
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