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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.
Jessica Lange
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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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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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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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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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Yes, and you should question your government.
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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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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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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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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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