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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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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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 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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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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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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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
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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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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
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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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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
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Yes, and you should question your government.
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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.
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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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