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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Center is a very tough position to play.
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There's an art to comedy.
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I love music, my followers love music, and I know LiveXLive is the ultimate home for the live music experience. We're going to bring great comedy and great music together like no one else is doing, and we'll have incredible access and resources to do it.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
