Top 38 Mcdormand Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
#9. 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
#10. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.
Simon Heffer
#11. where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a
uttering all through the farm buildings. Word
Anonymous
#12. 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
#13. I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
Frances McDormand
#14. 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
#15. Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.
Lizzy Caplan
#16. One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato
#17. Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
Alexandra Stoddard
#18. It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
Frances McDormand
#19. It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him ... .[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
Boyd K. Packer
#21. The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
Frances McDormand
#23. 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
#24. The wonder of all this - God looks at you at your lowest and loves you all the way up to the sky.
Ann Voskamp
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity ...
Anton Szandor LaVey
#29. 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
#30. What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.
Deepak Chopra
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.' ... A master manipulator is heaven.
Frances McDormand
#36. 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
#37. God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.
Stephen Charnock
#38. The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal ... (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
Elie Wiesel
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