Jessica Lange

Actress

1949-04-20

Jessica Lange is an American actress known for Tootsie, Frances, and Blue Sky. She has won Academy Awards and multiple major television acting awards.

Books by Jessica Lange

It's about a little bird
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In the Land of Leadale, Vol. 8 (light Novel)
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In the Land of Leadale, Vol. 7 (light Novel)
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Quotes by Jessica Lange

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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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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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.
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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've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
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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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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. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.
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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
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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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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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.
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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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I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.
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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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