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" I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight. "
Frances McDormand
Need
Straight
Sweet
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" 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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" I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. "
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" We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four. "
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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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" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "
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" No actor has complete freedom. "
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" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "
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" 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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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "
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" I have not mutated myself in any way. "
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" Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. "
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" The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole. "
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" 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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" 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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Sometimes
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" With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself. "
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Aging
" I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "
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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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" I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in. "
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" Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. "
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Farce
Unless
" Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her. "
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End
You
Waiting
" 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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Compliment
" I can do a good John Wayne. "
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Good
" I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life. "
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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 think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems. "
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" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "
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" I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "
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About
Age
" 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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Thought
" 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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Always
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