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" 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. "

Frances McDormand

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

" 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

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People

" Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. "

" 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

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" I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually. "

" 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

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

" 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 was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.' "

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

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

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

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

" What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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

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" 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. "

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

" I have a very short attention span. "

" No actor has complete freedom. "

" 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. "

" I have not mutated myself in any way. "

" You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced. "

Frances McDormand

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