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

Frances McDormand

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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 was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition. "

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" I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The only power you have is the word no. "

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

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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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" 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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" Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. "

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" 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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" In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. "

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

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" Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. "

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" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "

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