Frances McDormand Quotes
The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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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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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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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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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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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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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 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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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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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 was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.