Jessica Chastain Quotes
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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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When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was new to the industry, and they wanted to get to know me.
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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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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'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for me.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
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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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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 understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.
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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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I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.
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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 going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women.
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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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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 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 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.
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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.