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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
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Photographer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
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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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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 just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
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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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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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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
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The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
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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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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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