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