Quotes by Frances McDormand

“After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybodys going to think Im from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair.”

“Im a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they dont work, and then they work again.”

“I dont think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that youre the character youre trying to be.”

“It was an excellent job, ... I like the idea of playing a 42-year-old woman -- actually, 41, I was 41 last year -- who was pregnant and has to face it. ”

“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.”

“I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the movie, and he adores her, so I was really lucky.”

“I dont know how you can clean someone elses toilet. I can barely touch my own.”

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. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45...

The only power you have is the word no.

I never trusted good-looking boys.