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" I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. "
Frances McDormand
Mental
Depression
Mental Illness
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" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Glad
Mood Swings
Swings
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Business
Stand
People
" I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother. "
Frances McDormand
Want
Life
Live
" I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read. "
Frances McDormand
Buy
Books
Shelves
" 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 never trusted good-looking boys. "
Frances McDormand
Good-Looking
Never
Trust
" Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story. "
Frances McDormand
Television
Better
Way
" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "
Frances McDormand
Back
Talk
Greeks
" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "
Frances McDormand
I Am
Ordinary
Person
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Work
You
Think
" 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
" Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. "
Frances McDormand
Always
Character
Never
" 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
People
Yourself
Character
" 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
" At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.' "
Frances McDormand
Three
Who
Week
" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "
Frances McDormand
Going
I Love
Flying
" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "
Frances McDormand
Remember
Those
Read
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Men
See
You
" Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment. "
Frances McDormand
Struggle
Getting Older
Easy
" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "
Frances McDormand
Seen
Gift
Adulthood
" 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
" Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness. "
Frances McDormand
Film
Literature
Messy
" 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
Style
Pictures
Like
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Parents
Mother
Name
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
People
Think
I Can
" I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life. "
Frances McDormand
Progress
Depression
Life
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Tiger
Son
Men
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Day
Sometimes
My Own
" Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her. "
Frances McDormand
End
You
Waiting
" 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