Jessica Chastain Quotes
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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'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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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've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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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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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'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
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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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I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me.
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I try not to fake anything.
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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 struggled for so long to try to create a career.
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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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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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I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
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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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I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.
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There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
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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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Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.
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There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.
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I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.
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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.