Quotes by 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.
• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
• Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
• 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.
• The only power you have is the word no.
• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
• I never trusted good-looking boys.
• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
• I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
• 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.
• 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.
• I am an ordinary person.
• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
• 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.
• It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.