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Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand
American Actress
Born: Jun 23, 1957
Actor Good Life People Think You
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. Frances McDormand
Work Stars Movie Again Movie Stars Then Actor Careers
I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. Frances McDormand
Life Myself Me Reality Whatever Think About Something Audience Becomes Real Trained Theater Create Acting Imaginative
I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles. Frances McDormand
Back Small Supporting Roles Going Interested Really Playing
The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole. Frances McDormand
Best Three Crew Way Hyperbole Worked Ever
I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all. Frances McDormand
Son Husband Our Does Always Surprisingly Lot Swear Much
Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Frances McDormand
Age Past Something No-One Supposed Happened
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. Frances McDormand
Ourselves No Desire Perceiving Adult Red How Species Desire Alert
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. Frances McDormand
Gift Seen Adulthood Goal
I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. Frances McDormand
Revered Want Elder
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money. Frances McDormand
Women Money Lot Initiatives Film Need
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife. Frances McDormand
Housewife Am Been Very Producer Successful Reasons
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. Frances McDormand
Life Politics Cross Over Feminist Private Many Professional Professional Life
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
Change Woman People Opportunity Way Characters Would Stereotypical Look Because Female Female Characters How Doing Role Person Just Just Because Happen Anyway Them Even Present Portray Playing
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. Frances McDormand
Work Good You Think Claimed New Like Protestant Audience Always Get Gets Blue-Collar Movie Work Ethic Ethic Awards Things Bring
Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. Frances McDormand
Scholarship Yale
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor. Frances McDormand
Character Personality Character Actor Never Advantage Always Been Actor Here
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 great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. Frances McDormand
Time Good Great Long Become Enough Frame Television Tell Directors Writers Performers Female Time Frame Story Storytelling Why
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. Frances McDormand
Woman Age Marriage People Past Tell Kind Develop Middle Middle Age Movie Story Subversive Certain Certain Age Act Based Two Two People
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker. Frances McDormand
Director Writer Am Filmmaker
I have a very short attention span. Frances McDormand
Attention Span Attention Very Short Short Attention Span Span
It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace. Frances McDormand
Character Women Think Everyone About Something Involved She Became Cultural Did Happening Iconic Really Fargo Workplace Fascinating Zeitgeist
In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman. Frances McDormand
Myself Woman Women Problem World Seen Thinking Other Never Had Smaller Perhaps Large Comparison
It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable. Frances McDormand
Will Benefit Characters Could Partly Vulnerable Female Female Characters Taste Just Being Belief
The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound. Frances McDormand
You Men Seen Other Extraordinary Extraordinary Things Complex Moonlight See Scene Tenderness Lifetime Towards Most Deep Showing Bold Each Film Ever Things Profound Last Two
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. Frances McDormand
Depression Promoting About Mental Mental Illness Interested Really Illness Series Olive
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
Life Depression Progress Believe Think Everybody Has-Been Some Mental Mental Illness Point Clinical Been Cultural America Illness Suffers
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