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

Frances McDormand

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" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "

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

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" Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off. "

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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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" No actor has complete freedom. "

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

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" I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did. "

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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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" There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power. "

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" Who can worry about a career? Have a life. "

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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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" My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women. "

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

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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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" KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable. "

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

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

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

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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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" Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness. "

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

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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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