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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.

Jessica Lange

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Television Actor
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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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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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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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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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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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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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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 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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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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Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your 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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