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

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

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

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" I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. "

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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 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 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 tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us. "

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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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