Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
Jessica Phyllis Langeis an American actress who has received worldwide acclaim for her work in film, theater, and television. The recipient of several awards, including two Academy Awards, one Tony Award, three Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Dorian Awards; in 1998, Entertainment Weekly listed Lange among the 25 Greatest Actresses of the '90s. In 2016, Lange became the twenty-second thespian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 April 1949
CityCloquet, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Jessica Lange quotes about
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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.
That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.
All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.
I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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.
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.
I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.
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.
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.