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" I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. "

Frances McDormand

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" 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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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "

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" My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash. "

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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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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "

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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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" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "

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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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" I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. "

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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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" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "

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