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.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.