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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. "

Frances McDormand

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

" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "

" You just have to play the character. "

" If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. "

" 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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" One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife. "

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

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

" It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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