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" 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. "

Frances McDormand

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" I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them. "

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

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

" I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer. "

" It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre. "

" 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. "

" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "

" 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. "

" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "

" A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. "

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

" 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 think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life. "

" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "

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

Frances McDormand

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" Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her. "