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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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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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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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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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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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 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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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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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
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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 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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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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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If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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