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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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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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've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.
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I left the stage because I thought I had to shit, but then I lost the feeling.
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What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.
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Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be.
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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.
