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. — 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
