Jessica Lange

“I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.”

“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.”

“I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.”

“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.”

“There are no explanations, there are no answers.”

“אני מתחרטת על הפעמים בהן בחרתי בצד האפל. בזבזתי מספיק זמן על לא להיות מאושרת.”

“אף פעם לא הרגשתי שייכת למינסוטה כשגדלתי שם.”

“אני אף פעם לא חושבת על העתיד. אני אף פעם לא מדמיינת מה יבוא אחר כך.”

“דוגמנית מצליחה? זה מיתוס. השנה שדגמנתי הייתה השנה הכי כואבת בחיי. עורכים תמיד היו מדברים אלייך בגוף שלישי כאילו את רק פריט של סחורה.”

“היה קל יותר לעשות את שייקספיר מאשר הרבה תסריטי סרטים מודרניים שכתובים כל כך גרוע.”

“קיבלתי החלטות רק על סמך נקודת מבט של שחקנית.”

“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. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”