Quotes by Jessica Lange

About Jessica Lange:

Jessica Phyllis Lange is an American actress who has worked in film, theater and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Oscars, three Emmys, five Golden Globes, one SAG Award and three Dorian Awards, Lange is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of her generation.
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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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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 exp...

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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

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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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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.

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.

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.

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

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 li...

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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.

Jessica Lange

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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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.

Jessica Lange

Author Bio

  • NameJessica Lange
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • AliasesJessica Phyllis Lange
  • BornApril 20, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Photographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress; Donostia Award