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" I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother. "

Frances McDormand

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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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" 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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" People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can. "

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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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" You just have to play the character. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There's something healing about tears. "

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" I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read. "

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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. "

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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 could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable. "

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" When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. "

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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 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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" 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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