142 Quotes by Frances McDormand

I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.

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

I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.