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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.

Jessica Lange

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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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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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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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 love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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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 just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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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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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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 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 want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
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Don't be absent from your own life.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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