Frances McDormand Quotes
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
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For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
