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" I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules. "
Frances McDormand
Started
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Rules
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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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" The only power you have is the word no. "
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" I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "
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" I have not mutated myself in any way. "
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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "
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" Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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Swings
" 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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Day
School
Good
" Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness. "
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Film
Literature
Messy
" Who can worry about a career? Have a life. "
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Career
About
Life
" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "
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Stage
Event
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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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Children
America
Believe
" We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money. "
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" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Style
Pictures
Like
" I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. "
Frances McDormand
Want
Elder
Revered
" People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can. "
Frances McDormand
People
Often
Love
" I have a very short attention span. "
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Attention
Short
Attention Span
" 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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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "
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Town
High School
" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "
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Back
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Greeks
" I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles. "
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Small
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Interested
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