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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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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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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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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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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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
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Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
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I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
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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.
