Frances McDormand Quotes
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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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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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 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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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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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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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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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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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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I can do a good John Wayne.
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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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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.