A biography for Frances McDormandhasn’t been written yet.
“Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.”
“I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.”
“The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.”
“Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.”
“It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.”
“I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.”
“It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.”
“Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.”
“I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.”
“I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'”
“I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.”
“If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.”
“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.”
“Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.”
“Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.”
“I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.”
“I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.”
“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.”
“The only power you have is the word no.”
“The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.”