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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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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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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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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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As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.
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The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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 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 never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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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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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Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
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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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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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 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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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