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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Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.
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There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.
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I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
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I'm still fiercely ambitious.
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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.
