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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
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Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
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I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
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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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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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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 I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
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There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
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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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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.
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