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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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

~Frances Mcdormand

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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

~Frances Mcdormand

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

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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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.

~Frances Mcdormand

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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.

~Frances Mcdormand

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I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

~Frances Mcdormand

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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

~Frances Mcdormand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 23rd, 1957

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