Quotes By Jessica Lange

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

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.

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.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

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