A biography for Frances McDormandhasn’t been written yet.
“Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.”
“In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.”
“I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.”
“I have not mutated myself in any way.”
“I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.”
“I'm really interested in playing my age.”
“I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.”
“KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.”
“I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.”
“It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.”
“I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.”
“My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.”
“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.”
“Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.”
“What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.”
“A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.”
“People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.”