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" 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. "

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" 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

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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. "

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

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

" My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash. "

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

" I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.' "

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

" My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other. "

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

" You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced. "

Frances McDormand

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" 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. "

" I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in. "

" 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. "

" No actor has complete freedom. "

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

" 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

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" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "