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" Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. "
Frances McDormand
Hair
Face
Dresses
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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. "
Frances McDormand
Map
Road
Always
" KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable. "
Frances McDormand
Job
Me
People
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Change
Woman
People
" I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. "
Frances McDormand
Husband
Son
Our
" I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing. "
Frances McDormand
Ridiculous
Interesting
Done
" No actor has complete freedom. "
Frances McDormand
Freedom
Complete
Actor
" If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge. "
Frances McDormand
Leave
Money
Run
" I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want. "
Frances McDormand
Job
Think
Want
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Debt
You
Theatre
" I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "
Frances McDormand
Writer
I Am
Director
" At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.' "
Frances McDormand
Three
Who
Week
" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "
Frances McDormand
Remember
Those
Read
" There's something healing about tears. "
Frances McDormand
About
Healing
Something
" I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that. "
Frances McDormand
Women
Real
Woman
" 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?' "
Frances McDormand
Building
You
School
" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "
Frances McDormand
Director
Sleeping
May
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
You
Always
Money
" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "
Frances McDormand
Attracted
Male
Gestures
" Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story. "
Frances McDormand
Television
Better
Way
" I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "
Frances McDormand
Disagree
America
Ridiculous
" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "
Frances McDormand
Stage
Event
Someone
" I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it. "
Frances McDormand
Been
Like
Fast
" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "
Frances McDormand
Life
Older
Great
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Up
More
Polaroid
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Children
America
Believe
" I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "
Frances McDormand
Being
About
Age
" 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
Day
School
Good
" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "
Frances McDormand
Always
You
See
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
People
Cry
Women
" I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us. "
Frances McDormand
Year
Good
Because