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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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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The only power you have is the word no.
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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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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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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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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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 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 have a very short attention span.
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There's something healing about tears.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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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'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.