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 More Quotes by Jessica Lange More Quotes From Jessica Lange So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. Jessica Lange who-i-am home children There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation. Jessica Lange abuse political children Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. Jessica Lange family ties death All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment. Jessica Lange anger moments Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them. Jessica Lange perfect sometimes If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. Jessica Lange starting-over acting photography That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way. Jessica Lange growing-up brother trying When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work. Jessica Lange home two years The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point. Jessica Lange childhood mother father Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along. Jessica Lange horror-stories new-experiences play I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary. Jessica Lange photojournalists extraordinary acting I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom. Jessica Lange costumes makeup hair My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work. Jessica Lange saint regret play I have always followed the most passionate course. Jessica Lange courses passionate 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 actors want directors I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles. Jessica Lange exercise class men 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 actors done thinking Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. Jessica Lange office kind mind I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view. Jessica Lange actors decision views I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do. Jessica Lange movie actors different
