142 Quotes by Frances McDormand

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.