A biography for Frances McDormandhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.”
“All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.”
“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.”
“I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'”
“I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.”
“I never trusted good-looking boys.”
“No actor has complete freedom.”
“At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'”
“You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.”
“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.”
“Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.”
“I know I'm profane. And outspoken.”
“Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.”
“My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.”
“I am an ordinary person.”
“Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.”