Frances McDormand Quotes

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Frances McDormand

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 23, 1957

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

Frances McDormand

Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

Frances McDormand

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

Frances McDormand

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 have not mutated myself in any way.

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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.

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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

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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 think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

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