Jessica Chastain Quotes
I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.
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It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.
