Frances McDormand Quotes
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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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 swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
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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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I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.
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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 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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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.
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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
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I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.