Jessica Chastain Quotes
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Nobody who has even kicked a ball in the street likes losing.
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I think that Carrie is such an icon, not just as someone who played Princess Leia, but someone who was groundbreaking in that she was OK with being honest - brutally so, unapologetically so.
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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
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I had the feeling that as a soldier I didn't do what I thought I had it in me to do, and wanted to do.
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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
