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

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
Jessica Lange

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Jessica Lange

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
Jessica Lange

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
Jessica Lange