Jessica Lange

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.