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" 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. "

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" I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other. "

Frances McDormand

Need

Young

Short

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

" I am an ordinary person. "

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

" 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. "

" Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences. "

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

" I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. "

Frances McDormand

Time

Long

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

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

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

" 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

Polaroid

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

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

Frances McDormand

Hard

Rock

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

" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "

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

" 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. "

" I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems. "

Frances McDormand

Aging

Think

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. "

" No actor has complete freedom. "

" I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. "

" I have a very short attention span. "

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