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" A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere. "
Frances McDormand
Good
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" Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. "
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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "
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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "
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" It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace. "
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" I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing. "
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" My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community. "
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" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "
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" I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven. "
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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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" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "
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" I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "
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" What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school. "
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School
" We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four. "
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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "
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Scholarship
" I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read. "
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Buy
Books
Shelves
" 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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Yourself
Look
Compliment
" Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. "
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Always
Character
Never
" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "
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" Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. "
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Something
Past
Age
" I can do a good John Wayne. "
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John
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Good
" I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "
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Writer
I Am
Director
" Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off. "
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Day
Sometimes
My Own
" I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot. "
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People
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Women
" I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other. "
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Need
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" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "
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Illness
I Think
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" People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can. "
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People
Often
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" I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. "
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" There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power. "
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You
Always
Money
" I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight. "
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Need
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Sweet
" I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role. "
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