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" 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. "

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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. "

Frances McDormand

You

Always

Money

" 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. "

" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "

" Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story. "

" Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. "

" I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition. "

Frances McDormand

Thought

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

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

" Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "

" 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 can do a good John Wayne. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

" I am an ordinary person. "

" 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. "