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)
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)
I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. (Frances McDormand)
Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage. (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)
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 like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. (Frances McDormand)
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)
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)