Frances McDormand on sensitivity and living a real life

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The high sensitivity personality – Frances McDormand on living a real life

Frances McDormand “With most people when there’s a pain in their life there’s mental scar tissue that forms over the pain and helps you go on living.

“An actor’s scar tissue really never covers over things the same way, not if you’re going to be sensitive. With good technique, an actor can do that and walk through life without going insane.”

“You have to get away from the theater or from the set and live life. If you work constantly from job to job, you’re living in a fantasy world and you have nothing else to offer than fantasy.”

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