Jessica Lange

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

— Jessica Lange

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

— Jessica Lange

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in…

— Jessica Lange

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments…

— Jessica Lange

At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

— Jessica Lange

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

— Jessica Lange

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks,…

— Jessica Lange

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the…

— Jessica Lange

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

— Jessica Lange

I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one…

— Jessica Lange

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

— Jessica Lange

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

— Jessica Lange

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

— Jessica Lange

If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

— Jessica Lange

American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new…

— Jessica Lange

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

— Jessica Lange

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was…

— Jessica Lange

Don't be absent from your own life.

— Jessica Lange

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

— Jessica Lange

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know…

— Jessica Lange

I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

— Jessica Lange

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,…

— Jessica Lange

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

— Jessica Lange

I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so…

— Jessica Lange

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as…

— Jessica Lange