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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jessica Lange

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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Selfishness
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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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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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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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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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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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My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.
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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 take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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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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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Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
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I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.
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When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.
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