Skip to content

We five women were fortunate to have the choice, not just the opportunity but the choice, to play such rich, complex female characters.

— Frances McDormand

Another quote →

Topics

Women

More quotes by Frances McDormand

It is impossible to maintain one's composure in this situation.

I encourage writers and directors to keep these really interesting female roles coming — and while you're at it you can throw in a few for the men as well.

We are a bunch of hooligans and anarchists but we do clean up nice.

No "trending". It changes now, and I think the inclusion rider will have something to do with that.

And now I want to get some perspective.

All Frances McDormand quotes →

You may also like

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Frances McDormand (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.