List of Jessica Lange Quotes

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.

It Was Easier To Do Shakespeare Than A Lot Of Modern Movie Scripts That Are So Poorly Written.

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.

What Can I Say? I Hate Bush; I Despise Him And His Entire Administration, Everything He Represents And Everything He Has Tried To Do, Not Only Internationally, Which Is Horrific, But Domestically As Well. In My Country The Atmosphere Is Poisoned. Unbreathable For Those Of Us Who Are Not On The Right. So Thank You For Inviting Me To This Festival And Allowing Me To Leave There For A Few Days.

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.

There's Something Magical Still About It When I Get In A Darkroom, And You've Shot A Roll Of Film And You Develop It And You Look At Your Negatives, And There's Like Imagery There. That Always Stuns Me.

It [military Action On Iraq] Makes Me Feel Ashamed To Come From The United States. It Is Humiliating.

I Went To The University Of Minnesota To Study Art. I Left The University To Come To New York And Live In Soho. I Got Involved With Like A Small Kind Of Like Experimental Theater-mime Company And We Discovered That Étienne Decroux, A Great Mime, Was Still Teaching In Paris So I Went To Study With Him For Several Years.

There Was A Period Of Time When I Was Very Political, When I Was At The University. It Was Like The Late '60s, Early '70s And I Was A Dissident Like Everybody Else I Guess. Now I Follow It But There's Nothing That Really Grabs Me. The Most Fascinating Thing To Me Right Now Is China.

When You Think About It There's Never Really Been A Realistic Exposition Of Hollywood, I Mean - From The Inside - Showing Hollywood What It Can Do, What It Has Done, To People.

I Like Playing Characters Who Are Out There On The Edge, Where They Can Explode At Any Moment Or Fall Off The Precipice.

I Had A Big Family - Two Older Sisters And A Younger Brother. My Family Was Like Moving Around A Lot So I Lived In A Lot Of Small Towns. My Father Was Very Restless.