Frances McDormand

In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman. ”

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. ”

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. ”

There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way. ”

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. ”

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children. ”

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

All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer. ”

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange. ”

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. ”