142 Quotes by Frances McDormand

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    Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

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    What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

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    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.

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    I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

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    Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

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    Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

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