Jessica Chastain Quotes
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I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.
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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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Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
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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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I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.
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I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.
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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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I struggled for so long to try to create a career.
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
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I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.
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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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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
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I'm the first person in my family to go to college.
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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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One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.
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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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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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If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.
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Gian Luca and I have been together for such a long time, we're in it for the long haul.
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The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.
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I started a production company - all female led, actually - called Freckle Films.
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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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I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'
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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.