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 Read Quote
I’ve always known that I’ll have a career for the rest of my life because they’ll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman’s story, they’re complex, circular, and not genre-driven. Frances McDormand Read Quote
We wrote ‘Olive Kitteridge’ as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four. Frances McDormand Read Quote
My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR. Frances McDormand Read Quote
I’ve given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don’t stop until it’s done. Frances McDormand Read Quote
I’ve got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will. Frances McDormand Read Quote
If you take it as a compliment that you don’t look your age, then you’re really shooting yourself in the foot. Frances McDormand Read Quote
