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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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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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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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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 love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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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