Frances McDormand Quotes
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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There's something healing about tears.
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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 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 not mutated myself in any way.
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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 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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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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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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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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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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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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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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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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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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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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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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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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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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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.