Jessica Chastain Quotes
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For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
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I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.
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I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.
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I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.
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I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.
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My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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In our society, women are valued for their sexual attraction. I'd like to get away from the sex symbol idea of what beauty is. Actually, that's probably the farthest thing from beauty, because it's makeup and hair, it's pouty lips - it's not real.
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me.
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Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
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I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.
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I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.
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We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.
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As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?
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I try not to fake anything.
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I struggled for so long to try to create a career.
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I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.
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I'm going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women.
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The great thing about modern feminism is that women can define what it means to them: it can mean being ambitious, it can mean being emotional, it can mean being sensitive and compassionate and also a leader. It can mean all those things.
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We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
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This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
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It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.
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I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.