136 Quotes by Jessica Lange

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.

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

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

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

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.

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

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.

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