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" All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer. "
Frances McDormand
Producer
Skills
Using
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" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Women
Real
Woman
" I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. "
Frances McDormand
Work
You
Think
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Place
Child
Parents
" I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. "
Frances McDormand
Husband
Son
Our
" Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences. "
Frances McDormand
Movies
Best
Good
" The only power you have is the word no. "
Frances McDormand
Only
You
Word
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Women
Workplace
Character
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Simple
Stars
Work
" 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
More
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. "
Frances McDormand
Day
Sometimes
My Own
" It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. "
Frances McDormand
Much
Life
My Life
" I never trusted good-looking boys. "
Frances McDormand
Good-Looking
Never
Trust
" 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
" I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot. "
Frances McDormand
People
Cry
Women
" 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
Go
Family
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Film
Literature
Messy
" I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it. "
Frances McDormand
Being
About
Age
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Parents
Mother
Name
" 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
Style
Pictures
Like
" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "
Frances McDormand
School
Town
High School
" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "
Frances McDormand
Yale
Scholarship
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Life
Acting
Think
" I have not mutated myself in any way. "
Frances McDormand
Any
Myself
Way
" Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. "
Frances McDormand
Always
Character
Never
" I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us. "
Frances McDormand
Year
Good
Because
" I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character. "
Frances McDormand
Go
Mind
Will
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
Road
People
Nature
" If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge. "
Frances McDormand
Leave
Money
Run
" 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
Me
People
" 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. "
Frances McDormand
People
Think
I Can