Frances McDormand Quotes
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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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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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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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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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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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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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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 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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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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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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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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There's something healing about tears.
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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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The only power you have is the word no.
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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.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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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 have not mutated myself in any way.
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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.