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" 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. "

Frances McDormand

Family

Responsibility

Mother

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" 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

Family

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

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

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

" 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. "

" In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters. "

Frances McDormand

Had

Work

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange. "

" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. "

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

" I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. "

" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "

" 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 know I'm profane. And outspoken. "

" 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?' "

" 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'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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "