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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. "

Frances McDormand

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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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" 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 am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "

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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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" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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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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" Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story. "

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" In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. "

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" The only power you have is the word no. "

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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 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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" It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. "

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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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" 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 want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. "

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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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" I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them. "

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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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" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "

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

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" We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. "

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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. "

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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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" 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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" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "

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" I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare. "

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

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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. "

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

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