A Quote by Frances McDormand

My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

Frances McDormand

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Frances McDormand
American - Actress
Born: June 23, 1957

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

Bernard Goldberg

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

Reba McEntire

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

Elle King

DDP, when I look at you, I see white trash! When I look at the people in the crowd, I see white trash. So maybe you are the people's champion!

Scott Steiner

If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

Jim Goad

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

Dolly Parton

I'm with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field … They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ - not a word!

Phil Robertson

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

Carrie Fisher

I'm really white trash.

George Clooney

Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.

Katherine Moennig

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Chuck Close

Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?

Rainbow Rowell

I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

Kathryn Stockett

When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.