top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Growing up quotes
"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."
"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home."
"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."
"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."
"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."
"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."
"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."
"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."
bottom of page