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I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
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The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.
Jessica Chastain
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If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.
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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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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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Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
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There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
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If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.
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I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.
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I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.
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I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
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I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?
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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.
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If I get a role, it's because I fought for it.
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There I was at 'The Tree of Life' premiere, holding hands with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. That walk down the red carpet was a real rite of passage for me. Suddenly, journalists began asking, 'Who's this actress?'
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I'm such a geek.
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I don't want people to look at me.
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I talked to congressmen who really hate having to go to the many fundraisers, but they see it as a necessary part of their job.
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My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.
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