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… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe.… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
