Frances McDormand movie quotes

“- Abby: Ray, just tell me what happened?
- Ray: That's not important.”
Frances McDormand - Abby
John Getz - Ray

“- Abby: He gave me a little pearl-handled .38 for our first anniversary.
- Ray: Uh-huh.
- Abby: Figured I'd better leave before I used it on him. I don't know how you can stand him.
- Ray: Well, I'm only an employee, I'm not married to him.”
Frances McDormand - Abby
John Getz - Ray

“- Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music!
- Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex.
- Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry!
- Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they're on pot.”
Zooey Deschanel - Anita Miller
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“Life is so goddamn wonderful you almost won't believe it. It's a bowl of goddamn cherries.”

Frances McDormand - Doris Crane

“- Julie Hastings: You'll perfect the skin. You'll make it work. It doesn't matter.
- Peyton Westlake: Julie... don't you think I told myself that? Night after skinless night!”
Frances McDormand - Julie Hastings
Liam Neeson - Peyton Westlake

“In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.”
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

- Linda Litzke: You should put up a note in the ladies locker room.
- Chad Feldheimer: Put up a note? "Highly classified shit found: Signal intelligence shit, CIA shit"? "Hello, anybody lose their secret CIA shit?". I don't think so!

Frances McDormand - Linda Litzke
Brad Pitt - Chad Feldheimer

“If you're not going to kill me... I have things to do.”

Frances McDormand - Julie Hastings

“- Marge Gunderson: Say, Lou, did you hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?
- Lou: That's a good one.”
Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson
Bruce Bohne - Lou

“- Miss Clavel: You're giving me a gray hair!
- Madeline: Could I see?
- Miss Clavel: No.”
Frances McDormand - Miss Clavel
Hatty Jones - Madeline

“I guess we just divorce our spouses, marry each other, and have this baby, right? Simple.”

Frances McDormand - Dean Sara Gaskell

“I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, what are you talking about? I haven't done anything funny.”

Frances McDormand - Abby

“- Miss Clavel: We'll find her. I promise you. We have to have faith.
- Madeline: I used to wish so hard for my parents to be alive again, but you can't make something happen just by wishing for it.”

Frances McDormand - Miss Clavel
Hatty Jones - Madeline

“- Abby: How come you offered to drive me in this mess?
- Ray: I told you, I like you.
- Abby: I never knew that.
- Ray: Well, now you do.
- Abby: Hell.”
Frances McDormand - Abby
John Getz - Ray

“Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and there's no glass slipper.”
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“- Abby: Ray?
- Ray: You're bad.
- Abby: What?
- Ray: I said you're bad.
- Abby: You're bad too.
- Ray: We're both bad.”
Frances McDormand - Abby
John Getz - Ray

“You marry the first guy that makes you laugh.”
Frances McDormand - Mrs. Pell

“- Anita Miller: First it was butter then it was sugar and white flour, bacon, eggs, balogna, rock 'n roll, motorcycles. Then! It was celebrating Christmas on a day in September when you knew it wouldn't be commercialized! What else are you gonna ban?
- Elaine Miller: Honey, you want to rebel against knowledge, I'm trying to give you the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Zooey Deschanel - Anita Miller
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“There's more to life than a little money.”

Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson

“Adolescence is a marketing tool.”
Frances McDormand - Elaine Miller

“Sometimes God reaches down and pulls the wings off his butterflies.”
Frances McDormand - Dr. Verstak