Frances McDormand Quotes
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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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.
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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.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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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.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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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.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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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.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.