Frances McDormand quotes
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“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.”
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“It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.”
-- Frances McDormandSource : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“Who can worry about a career? Have a life.”
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“I am an ordinary person.”
-- Frances McDormandSource : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 McDormandSource : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences”
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“I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one”
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“The only power you have is the word no”
-- Frances McDormandSource : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 McDormandSource : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
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“I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.”
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“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 McDormandSource : "A Star Who Has No Time for Vanity" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2014.
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