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" Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. "
Frances McDormand
Actor
Farce
Unless
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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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" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "
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" In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. "
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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 want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. "
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" I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "
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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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" If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge. "
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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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" 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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" Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. "
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" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "
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Someone
" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "
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May
" I have not mutated myself in any way. "
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" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "
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" I have a very short attention span. "
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Short
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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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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "
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Yale
Scholarship
" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "
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Gift
Adulthood
" No actor has complete freedom. "
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Freedom
Complete
Actor
" 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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Vulnerable
Belief
" I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven. "
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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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" 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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" We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four. "
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" When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. "
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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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" The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole. "
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" I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will. "
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