Jessica Lange Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.”

“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.”

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

“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”