136 Quotes by Jessica Lange

There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late ’60s, early ’70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there’s nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.

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.

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

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

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.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It’s humiliating.

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.

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