Jessica Lange quotes

Jessica Lange is an American actress acclaimed for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater. Her work has earned her numerous awards, including two Academy Awards and several Emmy Awards. She is recognized as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. Here are 53 of her quotes:

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

Jessica Lange

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Jessica Lange

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Jessica Lange

We started shooting the film before they'd even come up with a working model of King Kong, it wasn't unusual for the wardrobe to be decided on the day before a scene was going to be shot - usually those things are worked out months in advance. We had a veteran crew, and our cameraman, Harold Wellman, had actually worked on the original 'King Kong' in 1933. It was my first movie, of course, and people would take me aside and tell me that no matter how many more movies I made, I'd never make another one like this.

Jessica Lange

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jessica Lange

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jessica Lange

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

Jessica Lange

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

Jessica Lange

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 am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Jessica Lange

When I think back on Kong, that was like difficult too, because there was no reality in making that movie. There was so much that was left to my own devices and imagination. And when I had to play a scene opposite a 45-foot ape, that was bit taxing on your imagination because obviously there was nothing there, you know.

Jessica Lange

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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Jessica Lange

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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

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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

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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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange