I hate Bush, I despise him and his entire administration.
– Jessica Lange
In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.
– Jessica Lange
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.
– Jessica Lange
It is an immoral war that they are beginning and we must not be silenced. We have to be able to stand up and say no.
– Jessica Lange
Military action on Iraq makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.
– Jessica Lange
There has to be a movement now to really oppose what he is proposing because it's unconstitutional, it's immoral and basically illegal.
– Jessica Lange
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
– Jessica Lange
Yes, and you should question your government.
– Jessica Lange
When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
– Jessica Lange
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.
– Jessica Lange
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.
– Jessica Lange
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.
– Jessica Lange
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.
– Jessica Lange
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
– Jessica Lange
I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
– Jessica Lange
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.
– Jessica Lange
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
– Jessica Lange
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
– Jessica Lange
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
– Jessica Lange
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
– Jessica Lange
All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
– Jessica Lange
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.