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

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: High High School Pennsylvania School Steel Town

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Actor Been Even Eyes Film Gone Good Known Matter Off Production Productions Someone Take Them Though Where Whether Whose Work You Your

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Always Audience Awards Blue-Collar Bring Claimed Ethic Get Gets Good Like Movie New Protestant Things Think Work Work Ethic You I Think

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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Scholarship Yale

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Become Directors Enough Female Frame Good Great Long Performers Story Storytelling Television Tell Time Time Frame Why Writers

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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Act Age Based Certain Certain Age Develop Kind Marriage Middle Middle Age Movie Past People Story Subversive Tell Two Two People Woman

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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

~Frances Mcdormand

Topics: Better Better Way Female Story Television Tell Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 23rd, 1957

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