Jessica Lange movie quotes

“There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.”
Jessica Lange

“I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.”
Jessica Lange

“When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.”
Jessica Lange

“- Archibald Cunningham: Think of yourself a scabbard, Mistress McGregor, and I the sword. And a fine fit you were, too.
- Mary: I will think on you dead, until my husband makes you so. And then I will think on you no more.”
Tim Roth - Cunningham
Jessica Lange - Mary

“- Meg Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe? Why'd you put your head in the oven?
- Babe Magrath: I don't know... I'm having a bad day.”
Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath
Sissy Spacek - Babe Magrath

“One of the comforts of having children is knowing one's youth has not fled, but merely been passed down to a new generation. They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it's immortality that a parent loses.”
Jessica Lange - Constance Langdon

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off the wheel. I control my fate.”
Jessica Lange - Elsa Mars

“- Martha Baring: You show a lot of potential for a city girl.
- Helen: Thank you. You are an excellent liar.”
Jessica Lange - Martha Baring
Gwyneth Paltrow - Helen Baring

“He wants to have a baby... How'm I gonna do that, Frank?”

Jessica Lange - Cora Papadakis

“- Meg Magrath: So how are things with you, Babe?
- Chick Boyle: Things are dismal if you want my opinion. She's refusing to cooperate with her lawyer, that nice looking young Lloyd boy, and she won't tell any of us why she's committed this heinous crime.”

Jessica Lange - Meg Magrath
Tess Harper - Chick Boyle

“- Roberta: What will they do to you if you don't pay?
- Jim Bennett: Break every bone in my body.”
Jessica Lange - Roberta

“- Martha Baring: What lies did you tell her? Answer me! Answer me!
- Alice: I am, you just can't see my finger.”
Jessica Lange - Martha Baring
Nina Foch - Alice Baring

“Why can't you just be sensible? Leave your life and your work and your friends and move in here with a controlling old woman, and a big ranch of horse shit.”

Jessica Lange - Martha Baring

“- Margaret Lewin: Any animal can give birth. That doesn't make it a mother.
- Khaila Richards: Are you calling me an animal? If you think you're going to just take my baby from me like some puppy from a pound, you got another thing coming, lady!”
Jessica Lange - Margaret Lewin
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards

“I've never been a sunnypersonality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.”
Jessica Lange

“Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.”
Jessica Lange

“You know what, Chris, you can be a real little shit sometimes.”
Jessica Lange - Beth Macauley

“I know about loss, Max. I know about losing time, even losing years. And I know it doesn't compare to jail, but I can understand.”
Jessica Lange - Leigh Bowden

“- Charlie Dick: Hey, I want you to get your coat. I want to drive you some place for a drink. I want us to dance awhile, then I want us to get to know each other a lot better.
- Patsy Cline: You want a lot don't you?
- Charlie Dick: Yeah I do baby.
- Patsy Cline: Well people in Hell want ice water, that don't mean they get it.”
Ed Harris - Charlie Dick
Jessica Lange - Patsy Cline

“- Babs: Then will you give me a job?
- Narvel Blue: I got a hundred black men needjobs! Black women, too. Why should I give you one?
- Babs: Because you need white faces.”
Jessica Lange - Babs
Carl Lumbly - Narvel Blue

- Angelique: Do you believe in love?
- Joe Gideon: I believe in saying, "I love you". It helps you concentrate.
Jessica Lange - Angelique
Roy Scheider - Joe Gideon

"Honor is the gift a man gives himself". You told our boys that. Would you have stolen from yourself that which makes you Robert Roy MacGregor?

Jessica Lange - Mary

“To these men, the truth is but a lie undiscovered.”
Jessica Lange - Mary

“- Mrs. Wurtzel: Come on, this is the most important day of your life!
- Elizabeth: I thought that's when you get married.
- Mrs. Wurtzel: Huh, no honey, that's the worst day of your life.”
Jessica Lange - Mrs. Wurtzel
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

- Albert: You know what he said, "With malice toward none and charity to all".
- Louise: And the last thing he said was "Look honey, I've got these two great seats for the theater tonight".
- Albert: Jesus, why did I have to bring up Lincoln?

Richard Benjamin - Albert
Jessica Lange - Louise