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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. "

Frances McDormand

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Road

Always

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Frances McDormand

Aging

Think

" My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR. "

" We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. "

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Had

Work

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

" I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children. "

" 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'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 would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. "

" I have a very short attention span. "

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "

" I can do a good John Wayne. "

" 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?' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

People