Frances McDormand Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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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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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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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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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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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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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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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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 have not mutated myself in any way.
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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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The only power you have is the word no.
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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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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.
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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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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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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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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.