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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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Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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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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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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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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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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I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.
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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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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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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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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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One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
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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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