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

Frances McDormand

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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 an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange. "

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

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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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" I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?' "

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

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

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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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" We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money. "

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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 want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother. "

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" I'm really interested in playing my age. "

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" Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. "

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" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "

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

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