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

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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

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

~Frances Mcdormand

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My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.'

~Frances Mcdormand

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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

~Frances Mcdormand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 23rd, 1957

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