Frances McDormand

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter…

— Frances McDormand

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie…

— Frances McDormand

Guess what? I am an ordinary person.

— Frances McDormand

There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

— Frances McDormand

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting…

— Frances McDormand

I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies.…

— Frances McDormand

If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get…

— Frances McDormand

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

— Frances McDormand

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it…

— Frances McDormand

No actor has complete freedom.

— Frances McDormand

Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

— Frances McDormand

Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't…

— Frances McDormand

At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

— Frances McDormand

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

— Frances McDormand

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

— Frances McDormand

I have a very short attention span.

— Frances McDormand

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…

— Frances McDormand

A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so…

— Frances McDormand

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

— Frances McDormand

I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I…

— Frances McDormand

My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I…

— Frances McDormand

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

— Frances McDormand

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

— Frances McDormand

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier…

— Frances McDormand