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
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.
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.
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.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
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.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
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.
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
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.
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.
Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.