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" I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. "

Frances McDormand

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" 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. "

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" 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?' "

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" I can do a good John Wayne. "

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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'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. "

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" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film. "

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" There's something healing about tears. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. "

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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere. "

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" I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. "

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

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" I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules. "

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" The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" The only power you have is the word no. "

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

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

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