Jessica Lange Quotes
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I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
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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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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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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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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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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.
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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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When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
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If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
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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.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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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.
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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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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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Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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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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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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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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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
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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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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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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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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.