Frances McDormand Quotes
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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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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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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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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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 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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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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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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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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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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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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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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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your 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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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.