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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I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.
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My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.
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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
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It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.
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What he said was, they're finding so many new groups and sub-groups that in ten or twenty years you'll be able to identify a chap straight away just by his blood, like as if it was his fingerprints.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
