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" 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. "

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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

Map

Road

Always

" 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'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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have not mutated myself in any way. "

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. "

" I have a very short attention span. "

" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

" 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. "

" 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 read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "

" 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 like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. "

Frances McDormand

Hard

Rock

" No actor has complete freedom. "

" 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. "