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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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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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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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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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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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If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
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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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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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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