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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.
Jessica Lange
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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
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Jessica Phyllis Lange
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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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For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
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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 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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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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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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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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Don't be absent from your own life.
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.
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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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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I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.
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