Quotes By Jessica Lange

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

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.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

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.

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.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

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.

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.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

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.