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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

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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
Preoccupied
Pure
Happiness
Upon
Experience
Moments
Come
Unexpectedly

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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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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.
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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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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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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 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 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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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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 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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As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.
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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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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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