Jessica Lange
If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.
I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Inspiring
Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.Collection: Change
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.Collection: Moments
Don't be absent from your own life.Collection: Absent
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.Collection: Loneliness
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in oneCollection: Artist
It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
I want to live my life with no goals anymore, but just completely free, like I did when I was younger.Collection: Goal
I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.Collection: Slides
If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.Collection: Good Day
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.Collection: Believe
I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.Collection: Brother
It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.Collection: Military
When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.Collection: Mean
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's like imagery there. That always stuns me.Collection: Looks
I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.Collection: Art
It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.Collection: Character
Yes, and you should question your government.Collection: Government
The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.Collection: Mother
I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.Collection: Makeup
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.Collection: Political
What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. 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.Collection: Country
My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.Collection: Regret
Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.Collection: New Experiences
I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.Collection: Exercise
That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.Collection: Brother
I have always followed the most passionate course.Collection: Passionate
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.Collection: Embarrassing
...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Dream
At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.Collection: Certain
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.Collection: Book
I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?Collection: Thinking
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.Collection: Children