Frances McDormand Quotes

I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

Frances McDormand

• Never
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• In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Son

• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Want
  • Stand
  • Strangers

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Thoughts
  • Well

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Swimming

• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Science
  • Education

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Control
  • Body
  • Yoga

• The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • First
  • Holiday
  • Unfair

• I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Process

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• We got things done at the right time. Every time we went down, we kept our composure, got back into the lead and were able to sustain it.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Lead

• I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Work
  • Think
  • Travel

• Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Way
  • Never
  • Feel

• A lot of people have doubted me because of my size. They think someone like me doesn't deserve to be in the main event, but I think if they knew me, and knew what I've been through in my career, they would respect me.

  

  Rey Mysterio
  • Because
  • Deserve
  • Someone

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast