Frances McDormand Quotes

• 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.

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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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  Tags in Good, Best

• The only power you have is the word no.

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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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• 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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  Tags in Career, Actress, Simple

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

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  Tags in Play

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

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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

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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.

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  Tags in Depression, Theatre, Actor

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

  Frances McDormand

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  Tags in Supporting, Play

• 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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  Tags in Pictures, Battle, Boring

• The fact that I’m sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

  Frances McDormand

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  Tags in Fact, Director

• 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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  Tags in Profession, Matter, Unemployed

• I am an ordinary person.

  Frances McDormand

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  Tags in Extraordinary

• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  Frances McDormand

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  Tags in Worry

Frances McDormand (15)

Birth:	23rd June, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Frances Louise McDormand was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an American actress. She has been married to director and writer Joel Coen since 1984 and has starred in several of the Coen brothers' films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Burn After Reading. In 1997, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Fargo. In 2011, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Good People. in 2015, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a miniseries for Olive Kitteridge.

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