Jessica Lange Quotes

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• When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

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  Life, Want

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• Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

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  Inspiring, Graduation, Heart

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• Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

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  Change, Transient

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• Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

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  Moments, Pure Happiness, Pure

  Jessica Lange's Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, www.sarahlawrence.edu. June 28, 2008.

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• I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

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  Regret, Dark, Enough Time

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Family, Mom

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• Don't be absent from your own life.

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  Absent

  "16 Commencement Speeches That'll Change Your Views About Work, Love, and Money" by Jillian Kramer, www.glamour.com.

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

  Jessica Lange

  Life Lesson, Acceptance, Tolerance

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• 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.

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  Love Yourself, Acting, Stories

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• I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

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  Personality, Sunny, Outgoing

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• I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Wells

  "TCM Film Fest: Shirley MacLaine Serves Up Barbs and Valentines" by Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

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• I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one

  Jessica Lange

  Artist, Men, Three

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• It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

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  Thinking, Judging, Decision

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• For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

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  Rocks, Trying, Acting

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.

  Jessica Lange

  Goal, Want, Living My Life

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

  Jessica Lange

  Slides

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• American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool.

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  Thinking, Horror Stories, Careers

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• If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

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  Good Day, Jeans, Pairs

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• What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

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  Photography, Thinking, Acting

  "Actress Jessica Lange". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 8, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Intelligent, Emotional, Perfect

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• As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.

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  Believe, Care, Actors

  "Jessica Lange Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Psychological Work on the Show, Her Characters in Each Season and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• 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.

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  Religious, Diversity, Hell

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• 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.

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  Passion, Character, Commitment

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• I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

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  Done, Left, Loses

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