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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.

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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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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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Yes, and you should question your government.
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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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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 do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to 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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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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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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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