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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• 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.'

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Business
  • American
  • English

• 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.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Me
  • Lawyer

• I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Up
  • Why
  • Want

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Compass

• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Mother
  • Me

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Poor
  • Part

• I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Work
  • Single
  • Day

• I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Thought

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Days

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Think
  • Partner

• There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Family
  • Single
  • More

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• It's dangerous to be anybody popular.

  

  Young Thug
  • Popular
  • Dangerous
  • Anybody

• I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • inspirational
  • Compassion

• I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ability
  • Thing
  • Directly

• I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, 'Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy' - he was my 'roommate.' So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Up
  • Country
  • Guy

• Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

  

  Bertrand Meyer
  • Worse
  • Documentation
  • Incorrect

• I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

  

  Jessica Chastain