Frances McDormand Quotes
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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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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My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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There's something healing about tears.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.