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Don't be absent from your own life.

Jessica Lange

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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
Absent
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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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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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The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
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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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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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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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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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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 never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
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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 felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
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American Horror Story re-energized me it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool.
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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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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 never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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