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" We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. "

Frances McDormand

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" I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want. "

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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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" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. "

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" I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in. "

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" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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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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" I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "

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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'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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" 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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" 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. "

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" I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. "

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

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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "

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" I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. "

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

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

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

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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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