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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 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

Job

Think

Want

" I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. "

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

" Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Frances McDormand

Started

Rules

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

" 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. "

" 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

Polaroid

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can. "

" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "

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

" 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. "

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

Frances McDormand

Time

Long

" 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. "

" You just have to play the character. "

" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "

" Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. "

" I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. "

" I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it. "

Frances McDormand

Been

Fast

" At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.' "