Frances McDormand Quotes

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• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
• 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.
• 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…
• I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue,…
• The only power you have is the word no
• I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one
• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I am an ordinary person.
• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
• It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
• 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…
• I never trusted good-looking boys.
• Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

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