Frances McDormand Quotes

• 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

  Missing, Choices, Decision

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• The only power you have is the word no.

  Frances McDormand

  Power

  "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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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 McDormand

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Teenager, Past, Hair

  "A Star Who Has No Time for Vanity" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2014.

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Men, Car, Silence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Frances McDormand

  Careers, Worry

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  Frances McDormand

  Trust, Boys, Looking For Love

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Stars, Character, Simple

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Frances McDormand

  Two, Acting, Matter

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with 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 marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue.

  Frances McDormand

  Marijuana, Rights, Issues

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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 McDormand

  Son, Play, Support

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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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 McDormand

  Goal, Desire, Adults

  "A Star Who Has No Time for Vanity" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

  Frances McDormand

  Heaven, Directors, Needs

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• I am an ordinary person.

  Frances McDormand

  Ordinary, Ordinary Person, Persons

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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

  Frances McDormand

  Mother, Play, Long

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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 McDormand

  Scary, Theatre, Actors

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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

  Frances McDormand

  Rocks, Classic, Metals

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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

  Frances McDormand

  Good Movie, Best Experiences, Film

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