Frances McDormand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
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The only person who didn't do Shindig was Presley.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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I'm not interested in being liked.
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I am an ordinary person.
