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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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 not mutated myself in any way.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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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 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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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'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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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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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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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 swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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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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.
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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 have a very short attention span.
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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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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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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.