Jessica Chastain Quotes
There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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The world is always terrible.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
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My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".
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There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
