Frances McDormand

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

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else. ”

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. ”

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 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.' ”

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. ”

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”