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" Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off. "

Frances McDormand

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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. "

" 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. "

" I'm really interested in playing my age. "

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

" I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "

" 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. "

" I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be. "

" I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight. "

" I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. "

" There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way. "

" I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read. "

" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "

" 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. "

" I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them. "

" I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. "

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

" 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. "

" All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer. "

" I am an ordinary person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

" 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. "

" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "

" It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable. "

" Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "