Frances McDormand Quotes

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Frances McDormand

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 23, 1957

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.

Frances McDormand

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

Frances McDormand

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

Frances McDormand

All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

Frances McDormand

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

Frances McDormand

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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Guess what? I am an ordinary person.

Frances McDormand

I am an ordinary person.

Frances McDormand

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

Frances McDormand

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

Frances McDormand