Jessica Chastain Quotes
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I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.
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I feel very inspired right now because I know there are a lot of people out there who are really scared but I feel this great sense of togetherness and people coming together and saying, "I got your back."
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I try not to fake anything.
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It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.
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I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.
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We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
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I don't want people to look at me.
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I've spent my life being embarrassed.
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When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.
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To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.
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You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
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I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
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To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.
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One comment by a female lobbyist really shocked me. She said, "Washington is a contact sport." I asked, "What do you mean by that?" And she just said, "Well, it's all men - and they're very contact-y. They touch a lot." Women say that's just part of the game.
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I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
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I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
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I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
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Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.
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I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.
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No matter what, I'm going to ask for more.
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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
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I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
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I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career.
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I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.
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I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
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Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.
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I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.
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