Jessica Lange Quotes
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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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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
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I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?
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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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It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.
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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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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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I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.
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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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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.
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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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If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
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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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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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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
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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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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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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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Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
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Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
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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.
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
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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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It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
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At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.
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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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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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