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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
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Stage Actor
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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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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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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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 do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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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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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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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
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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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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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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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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