Quotations and phrases - 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

I am an ordinary person.
-- 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 star.
-- Frances Mcdormand

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

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
-- Frances Mcdormand

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
-- Frances Mcdormand

I never trusted good-looking boys.
-- Frances Mcdormand

I'm a character actress, plain and simple.
-- Frances Mcdormand

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

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

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
-- Frances Mcdormand

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

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
-- Frances Mcdormand

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
-- Frances Mcdormand

The only power you have is the word no.
-- 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 how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
-- Frances Mcdormand

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
-- Frances Mcdormand

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