Jessica Lange Quotes
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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.
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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
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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.
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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.
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We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
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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.
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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.
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All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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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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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
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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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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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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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To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.
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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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There are no explanations, there are no answers.
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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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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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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 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 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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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.