Frances McDormand famous quotes

05-13-2025

I never trusted good-looking boys.
-- Frances McDormand

#Trust #Boys #Looking For Love
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

#Two #Acting #Matter
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
-- Frances McDormand

#Son #Play #Support
Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
-- Frances McDormand

#Careers #Worry
I am an ordinary person.
-- Frances McDormand

#Ordinary #Ordinary Person #Persons
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. 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

#Jobs #Believe #Character
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

#Men #Car #Silence
Thereâ€™s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. Itâ€™s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 â€” sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
-- Frances McDormand

#Teenager #Past #Hair
Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.
-- Frances McDormand

#Choices #Decision #Missing
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

#Jobs #Believe #Character
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

#Scary #Theatre #Actors
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

#Good Movie #Film
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one
-- Frances McDormand

#Mother #Play #Long
The only power you have is the word no
-- Frances McDormand
I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between ***** and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.
-- Frances McDormand

#Marijuana #Rights #Issues
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

#Stars #Character #Simple
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

#Stars #Thinking #People
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
-- Frances McDormand

#Rocks #Classic #Classic Rock
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. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
-- Frances McDormand

#Goal #Desire #Adults

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