Mcdormand Quotes & Sayings

The only power you have is the word no. — Frances McDormand

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. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. — 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

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination. — Antony Gormley

There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic. — Roland Barthes

Carrying an aggressive attitude is to expect cool shadow under a naked Tree — Samar Sudha

Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice. — Charlize Theron

I never trusted good-looking boys. — Frances McDormand

I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels. — Julie Klassen

In the partnership of a pure, holy purpose it (money)seems almost omnipotent. But when it is allowed to grip both lines and whip, it drives a man at such a pace as to use up all his strength, and leave him utterly winded for anything else. — S.D. Gordon

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. The only difference is probably inbetween scenes, gossiping with Diane Keaton, Frances McDormand and Nancy Meyers about who's had Botox and who hasn't. — Amanda Peet

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. — Francis Bacon

There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. — Frances McDormand

I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better. — Anna Kendrick

I'm a recreational pot-smoker. There has never been enough of a distinction between marijuana and other drugs. It's a human rights issue, a censorship issue, and a choice issue. — Frances McDormand

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

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

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps. — Julie Klausner

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 love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama. — Rachael Harris

The very second the door closed behind them, Nicholas started shouting. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.
'I can't believe you did that!' he railed. 'After the field party, the vamps in the garden. Didn't you hear a single word I said?'
'No why don't you yell a little louder?'
'This isn't funny, Lucy. — Alyxandra Harvey

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

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

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. — Fran Lebowitz

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter. — Luanne Rice

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

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

But in the end I decided against it. The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except more nuts. The whole world is full of nuts. It's enough to get you down. — Philip K. Dick

You were made for me, built for no other purpose than to make me love you. — Michael Reilly

I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange. — Rachael Harris

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill — Fausto Coppi

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

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

Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart! — Styles P

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

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas. — Rachael Harris

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. — Frances McDormand

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out. — Frances McDormand

You're trying to block out every bit of noise. But people are made of noise, Mac. The world is full of noise. And finding quiet isn't about pushing everything out. It's just about pulling yourself in. — Victoria Schwab

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.' ... A master manipulator is heaven. — Frances McDormand

It's probably not going to shock you to hear this, but I'm fricking starving. — Eve Jagger

Who can worry about a career? Have a life. — Frances McDormand