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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Frances McDormand

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" I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange. "

" I am an ordinary person. "

" 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. "

" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "

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

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

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

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

" I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done. "

" 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 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. "

" I have not mutated myself in any way. "

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

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

" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "

" I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character. "

Frances McDormand

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

" Who can worry about a career? Have a life. "

" In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman. "

" You just have to play the character. "

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

" I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. "

" 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. "

" We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money. "

" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "

" It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace. "

" One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife. "

" 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. "

" 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. "