Frances McDormand Quotes
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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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'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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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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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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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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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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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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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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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 wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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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'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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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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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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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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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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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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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.