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" 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. "

Frances McDormand

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Frances McDormand

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" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "

" Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. "

" 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. "

" I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "

" 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. "

" I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. "

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

" I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother. "

" 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. "

" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know I'm profane. And outspoken. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four. "

" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "

" 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. "

" What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school. "

" 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. "

" If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles. "

" My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR. "

" I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare. "