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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "

Frances McDormand

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" We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life. "

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

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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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" I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. "

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" I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did. "

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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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" 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 would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "

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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. "

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" I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. "

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" There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way. "

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" The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound. "

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" There's something healing about tears. "

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" I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles. "

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

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" I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing. "

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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere. "

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" 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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" I can do a good John Wayne. "

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" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "

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" With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself. "

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" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "

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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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" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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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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