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

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• 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

• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• 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

• Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hand
  • Road
  • Path

• Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Women
  • Advocates
  • Degraded

• I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

  

  Ben Harney
  • Life
  • Family
  • Free

• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  

  Aristotle
  • Divine
  • Poets
  • Melancholy

• I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Why

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

  

  Jessica Chastain