Frances McDormand Quotes
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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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'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.
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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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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 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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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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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 only power you have is the word no.
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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'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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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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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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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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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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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'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.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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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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.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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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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I have a very short attention span.
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There's something healing about tears.