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Jessica Lange (34)

Birth:	20th April, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Photographer, Producer

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Births

• 1908 - John Bardeen
• 1958 - Drew Carey
• 1944 - John Newcombe
• 1948 - Gary McCord
• 1974 - Jewel Kilcher

Deaths

• 1992 - Giovanni Falcone
• 1906 - Henrik Ibsen
• 1783 - James Otis
• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 1947 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

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• When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  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.

   

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• To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.

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

   

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• This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

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• There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don’t think you can.

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• There are no explanations, there are no answers.

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  The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part’s not that great.

   

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• 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.

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  Successful model? That’s a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

   

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• 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.

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• Sometimes parts just come along when it’s the perfect time for you to do them.

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• 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.

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• It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

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• 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.

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