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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. "

Frances McDormand

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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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" 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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" 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'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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" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "

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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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" 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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" I can do a good John Wayne. "

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" I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. "

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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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" I'm really interested in playing my age. "

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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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" It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. "

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" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "

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" I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character. "

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" You just have to play the character. "

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

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" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "

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" I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot. "

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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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" I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight. "

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" I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

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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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" Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. "

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" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "

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" At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.' "

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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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" What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school. "

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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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