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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
Life
Badly
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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 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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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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Yes, and you should question your government.
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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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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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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Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
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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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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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