Frances McDormand

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

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

“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.”

“I can do a good John Wayne.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Guess what? I am an ordinary person.”

“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.”

“With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.”

“I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.”