Frances McDormand Quotes


"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
(Related: Work, Life, Character, Actors, Career, Careers, Stars, Worry)

"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Fact, May)

"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Work, Actors, Careers, Stars)

"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
(Related: Car, Men, Women, Battle, Extreme, Woman)

"The only power you have is the word no."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Power, Word)

"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Life, Career, Worry)

"I never trusted good-looking boys."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Boys)

"I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal."
- Frances McDormand
"I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Time, Mother, Play)

"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
(Related: People, Character, Film, Job, Trying)

"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
(Related: People, Pretty)

"I am an ordinary person."
- Frances McDormand
"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
(Related: Movies)

"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
(Related: Money, Power, Acting, Will)

"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Son, Play, Support)