Jessica Chastain Quotes
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Green tea throughout the day is the healthiest thing I've discovered for 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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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 understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.
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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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Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
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I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.
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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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I struggled for so long to try to create a career.
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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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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'm the first person in my family to go to college.
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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 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 going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women.
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One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.
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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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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'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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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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The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.
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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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My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.
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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.