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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

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
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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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If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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 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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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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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