Jessica Lange
21 quotes
Biography
"We started shooting the film before they'd even come up with a working model of King Kong, it wasn't unusual for the wardrobe to be decided on the day before a scene was going to be shot - usually those things are worked out months in advance. We had a veteran crew, and our cameraman, Harold Wellman, had actually worked on the original 'King Kong' in 1933. It was my first movie, of course, and people would take me aside and tell me that no matter how many more movies I made, I'd never make another one like this"
"When I think back on Kong, that was like difficult too, because there was no reality in making that movie. There was so much that was left to my own devices and imagination. And when I had to play a scene opposite a 45-foot ape, that was bit taxing on your imagination because obviously there was nothing there, you know."
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
"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."
"All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment."
"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
"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."
"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home."
"I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden."
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
"I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next."
"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home."
"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."
"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."
"When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work."
"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."
"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."
"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."
"I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy."
"When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you."