Jessica Lange

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

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.

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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.