Words matter. These are the best Jessica Lange Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
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.
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.
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.
To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
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.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
I’ve got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I’ve done is out there.
I’ve never been a sunny personality. I’ve never been outgoing. I’m a solitary person.
I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn’t get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I’m not ‘box office’ and never have been, and that’s never entered into my kind of mind set.
When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
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 life.
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.
I’ve worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn’t really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you’re working with an actor who’s just unbearable.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
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.
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.
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don’t think you can.
All through life I’ve harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
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.
If you’re really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
I have made decisions based from purely an actor’s point of view.
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.
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.