Frances McDormand Quotes

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Frances McDormand

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 23, 1957

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

Frances McDormand

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

Frances McDormand

No actor has complete freedom.

Frances McDormand

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

Frances McDormand

I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.

Frances McDormand

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.

Frances McDormand

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

Frances McDormand

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

Frances McDormand

I can do a good John Wayne.

Frances McDormand

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

Frances McDormand

You just have to play the character.

Frances McDormand

A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.

Frances McDormand