Quotes by Frances Mcdormand - Page 3

Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Glamour
Homely
If I Could
Sabotage
Look Day Sometimes
Insecurities
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Life Men Women
Circular
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My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Aging
Position
Symbols
Followed
Map
Road
Road Map
Signs
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Depression
America
Illness
Mental Illness
Progress
Everybody
Clinical
Cultural
Mental
Point
Some
Suffers
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
New York
Movies
Appreciate
Hollywood
Quiet
Talk
Life Business People
All People
Life Business Movies
Escape
Exactly
Least
York
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Birth
Born
Ill
Mother
Trash
White
American
Name
City
Gibson
Heterosexual
Parents
Identify
Louise
Smith
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I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Aging
Conversation
Profession
Cosmetic
Cultural
Gracefully
Hazard
Individuals
Occupational
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Cry
Emotion
Variety
Male
Educating
Protagonist
Supporting
Supporting Role
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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 / Film Actress
Hair
Past
Teenager
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
American Family
Classical
Grand
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Female Characters
Portray
Stereotypical
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My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
Frances Mcdormand / Film Actress
Smell
Biological
Entered
Imperative
Lion
Monster
Smelled
Tiger
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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 / Film Actress
Jobs
Believe
Character
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