Jessica Chastain Quotes
I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
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A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.
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4) It is a sin to waste the reader's time.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
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I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
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I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
