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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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.

Jessica Lange

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 behin...

Jessica Lange

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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

Jessica Lange

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

Jessica Lange

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

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Jessica Lange

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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

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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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 abo...

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

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.

Jessica Lange

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Jessica Lange

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

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