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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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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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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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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.
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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.
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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
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The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.
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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
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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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