Frances McDormand movie quotes

View Quote [live on the news] My daughter Angela was murdered 7 months ago, it seems to me the police department is too busy torturing black folk to solve actual crimes.

View Quote [live on the news] This didn't put an end to shit, you **** ****; this is just the **** start. Why don't you put that on your Good Morning Missouri **** wake up broadcast, bitch?

View Quote Mildred Hayes: Dixon?
Dixon: Yeah?
Mildred Hayes: Are you sure about this?
Dixon: 'Bout killing this guy? Not really. You?
Mildred Hayes: Not really. I guess we can decide along the way.

View Quote So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it.

View Quote [on the phone] Oh my. Where? Yeah? Aw geez. Okay, there in a jif. Real good, then.

View Quote [when her husband, Norm, kisses her] Ya got Arby's all over me.

View Quote Your heart knows the truth, Delysia. Trust it, for life is short.

View Quote I have no one. I am not an expert on love, I am an expert on the lack of love, Delysia, and that is a fate from which I wish more fervently to save you.

View Quote Not everything comes along just when we want it. There are times when decisions just have to be made, or you certainly will miss out.

View Quote Abby: I ain't afraid of you, Marty.
Visser: [laughing] Well ma'am...If I see him, I'll sure give him the message.

View Quote Abby: I don't know. Sometimes I think there's something wrong with him. Like maybe he's sick? Mentally?...Or is it maybe me, do you think?
Ray: Listen, I ain't a marriage counselor. I don't know what goes on, I don't wanna know... But I like you. I always liked you...

View Quote Abby: Ray?
Ray: You're bad.
Abby: What?
Ray: I said you're bad.
Abby: [long pause, then smiles] You're bad too.
Ray: We're both bad.

View Quote Look at this: an entire generation of Cinderellas and there's no slipper coming.

View Quote Adolescence is a marketing tool.

View Quote Don't take drugs!

View Quote [from trailer, while slapping the hotel owner with his hand] You fool! How could you let them get away?!

View Quote Poor, poor animals. You should have never have left the forest. Now you deal with ME!

View Quote Attention! I have found the lion! He is hiding with the circus!

View Quote It's strange that you encourage people to invest their whole life savings, go into debt, just to buy a house they can't afford.

View Quote We be the bitches of the badlands.

View Quote Bo never knew his parents, and we never had kids. If I didn't stay, if I left, it would be like he never existed. I couldn't pack up and move on. He loved Empire. He loved his work so much. He loved being there. Everybody loved him. So I stayed. Same town, same house. Just like my dad used to say, "What's remembered lives." I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering, Bob.

View Quote Miss Clavel: Madeline!
Madeline: Got ya.

View Quote Miss Clavel: In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines... lived 12 little girls... in two straight lines.

View Quote Miss Clavel: Good night, little girls. Thank the Lord you are well. And now go to sleep.
Girls: Good night, good night, Miss Clavel.
Miss Clavel: Elizabeth, Veronica, Sylvette... Marie-Odile, Serena. Beatrice... Lucinda. Chantal, Lolo... Victorica, Aggie and Madeline. Amen. Something... is not... right.

View Quote [To Sam] With all due respect, young man, I appreciate what you did. But you're not a soldier; you're a messenger. You've always been a messenger.

View Quote Simmons: I wanna talk to whoever’s in charge here! Well, well, well. Charlotte Mearing.
Charlotte: Agent Simmons. Former Agent Simmons. So I see you survived Washington.
Simmons: Washington, Egypt, heartbreak. I survive. I will survive!

View Quote Charlotte: I don’t care who you are. If you breathe a word of what you see in here, you will do time for treason. Do you understand me?
Sam: I'll take my orders from the Autobots. I know them. I don’t know you.
Charlotte: You will.

View Quote Chad: Throw it out?!
Linda: You can't do that! You should put a note up in the ladies' locker room.
Chad: Put a note up? "Highly classified shit found, Signals Intelligence shit, CIA shit? Hello? Did you lose your secret CIA shit?" I don't think so.

View Quote Linda: Where's the money?
Chad: He hit me.
Linda: Where's the money?!
Chad: [Pause] He didn't give it to me.

View Quote Harry: [Leading Linda downstairs] Yeah, I tell ya. I saw an ad for this in a gentlemen's magazine. Twelve hundred bucks, TWELVE HUNDRED BUCKS. I'm lookin' at this thing and I think, "You gotta be kiddin' me." I'm a hobbyist. Thing's basically nothing but speed rails. I figure I'd go down to Home Depot and whip this up myself for... a hundred bucks. [Pulls the tarp off the machine]
Linda:...What is it?
Harry: What is it?? [Points to the chair] You sit down there, make yourself comfortable, put your feet in the stirrups, and...
[Harry pushes the chair back, and when it comes forward, a dildo pushes up through a hole in the seat of the chair. The chair continues to rock back and forth, with the dildo going up and down]
Linda: Oh my God!...[Hushed voice] THAT'S FANTASTIC.
Harry: Something, isn't it? Hundred bucks, all in; not counting the labor and...the cost of the dildo -those things aren't cheap- See, I like to...I'm not set up to mold hard rubber.

View Quote Dot: That there's for his orthodonture and his college. You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the college.

View Quote Dot: Reilly, You take that diaper off your head and put it back on your sister.

View Quote Dot: You gotta get 'em diptet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision.

View Quote So. I guess we just divorce our spouses, marry each other, and have this baby, right? Simple.

View Quote [Sara smells Antonia's perfume on Grady's clothes]
Sara Gaskell: Is that Cristalle?
Grady Tripp: Mm.
Sara Gaskell: My God, I wear the same scent as a transvestite.

View Quote Sara Gaskell: You didn't happen to call our house last night, did you?
Grady Tripp: I think I might have, yes.
Sara Gaskell: What do you think you might have said?
Grady Tripp: I think I might have said I was in love with you. [pause] He told you?
Sara Gaskell: He told me.
Grady Tripp: And what did you say?
Sara Gaskell: I said it didn't sound like you.