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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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Film Producer
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Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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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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If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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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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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 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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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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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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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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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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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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