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The only power you have is the word no.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Frances McDormand
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
Frances McDormand -
Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Frances McDormand -
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Frances McDormand -
It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
Frances McDormand
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
Frances McDormand -
Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
Frances McDormand -
I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand -
I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
Frances McDormand -
I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.
Frances McDormand
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
Frances McDormand -
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
Frances McDormand -
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
Frances McDormand -
I have a very short attention span.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Frances McDormand -
My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
Frances McDormand
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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.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Frances McDormand -
I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
Frances McDormand -
I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.
Frances McDormand