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" At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.' "
Frances McDormand
Three
Who
Week
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" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "
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" Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. "
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" It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. "
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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'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children. "
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" I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done. "
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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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" I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. "
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Like
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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "
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Town
High School
" You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced. "
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Style
Pictures
Like
" In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman. "
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World
Myself
Thinking
" It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows. "
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School
Good
" I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "
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America
Ridiculous
" I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?' "
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Building
You
School
" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "
Frances McDormand
Illness
I Think
Think
" I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. "
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Time
Am
Long
" I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it. "
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Been
Like
Fast
" Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. "
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Actor
Farce
Unless
" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "
Frances McDormand
Back
Talk
Greeks
" No actor has complete freedom. "
Frances McDormand
Freedom
Complete
Actor
" It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. "
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Age
Woman
People
" A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. "
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Story
Great
Good
" I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight. "
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Need
Straight
Sweet
" 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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Much
Life
My Life
" I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange. "
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Want
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" Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. "
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Hair
Face
Dresses
" 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
Cry
Women
" 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
" Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "
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Careers
Again
" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "
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Remember
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Read