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I am an ordinary person.
I can do a good John Wayne.
No actor has complete freedom.
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
I never trusted good-looking boys.
I have a very short attention span.
Guess what? I am an ordinary person.
Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
There's something healing about tears.
The only power you have is the word no.
Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.
In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.