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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Jessica Lange
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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
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Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
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When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
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Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
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I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.
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The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
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There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.
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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
Jessica Lange
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
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Yes, and you should question your government.
Jessica Lange
To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
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