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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
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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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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.
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I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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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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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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There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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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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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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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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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 never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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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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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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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