Jessica Lange quotes Her role in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' (1981) Born: 04/20/1949 Country: usa

• When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. (Jessica Lange) [life]
• Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. (Jessica Lange)
• Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings. (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)
• Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. (Jessica Lange)
• Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. (Jessica Lange)
• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. (Jessica Lange)
• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. (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 when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off. (Jessica Lange)
• I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you. (Jessica Lange)
• I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. (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 soon as I turned 18. (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 my way into that character. (Jessica Lange)
• I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home. (Jessica Lange)
• I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there. (Jessica Lange)
• In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)
• There are no explanations, there are no answers. (Jessica Lange)
• There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. (Jessica Lange)
• This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. (Jessica Lange)
• To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership. (Jessica Lange)
• To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before. (Jessica Lange)
• 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. (Jessica Lange)

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