Frances McDormand Quotes

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Frances McDormand

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 23, 1957

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

Frances McDormand

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

Frances McDormand

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

Frances McDormand

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Frances McDormand

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

Frances McDormand

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'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.

Frances McDormand

I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

Frances McDormand

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

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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 really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

Frances McDormand

The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

Frances McDormand

I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

Frances McDormand

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

Frances McDormand

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

Frances McDormand

Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

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