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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Jessica Lange

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
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Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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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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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 have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
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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 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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
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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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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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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 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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