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" You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced. "

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'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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" Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female. "

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" It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. "

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" People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can. "

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

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

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

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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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" Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment. "

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

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" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "

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

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" My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash. "

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" I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "

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" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "

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

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" My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community. "

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

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" I have a very short attention span. "

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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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" I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role. "

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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 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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" 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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