Jessica Chastain Quotes

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

Jessica Chastain

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• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• I'm a big Peyton Manning fan.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Fan
  • Big

• Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Always
  • Enough

• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Me

• I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

  

  Young Thug
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Man

• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Strange

• The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Drama

• Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Soccer
  • Most
  • Widely

• The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Action
  • Water

• Tiesto is legend. I've been in the studio many times. We did a tour together; I jumped onstage with him, he jumped onstage with me. Still, every time, I have to pinch myself and realize this is the guy who made me start doing what I'm doing right now.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Time
  • Together
  • Guy

• What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

  

  Mary Barra
  • Life
  • Job
  • Rest

• The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

  

  David Gill
  • Retirement

• The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Philosophy
  • Wisest

• I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

  

  Jai Rodriguez
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Tired

• When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Game
  • Basketball

• When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

  

  Jessica Chastain