Jessica Lange quotes - page 2

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. (Jessica Lange)

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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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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There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.

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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

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Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

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I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

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It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

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Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. (Jessica Lange)

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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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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I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

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I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

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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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All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

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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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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 have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view. (Jessica Lange)

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

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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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I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

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I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

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Jessica Lange

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: April 20, 1949
Quotes count: 53

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