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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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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If you talk about big trends at Disney, these movies generally are generated by directors or directorial teams pitching ideas to John Lasseter.
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And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
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Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .
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Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
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Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in 88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.
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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.
