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" Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

Frances McDormand

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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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" 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 have not mutated myself in any way. "

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

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

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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "

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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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" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "

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

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" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "

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