Top 54 Jessica Chastain Quotes
#1. What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
Natalie Dormer
#2. I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.
Jordan Gavaris
#3. I'm a wannabe redhead, definitely wannabe Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain redhead. But I love being a brunette.
Karla Souza
#4. I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her.
Joey King
#5. 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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#6. I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'
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#8. I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
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#12. I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.
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#13. I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
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#15. I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
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#16. Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.
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#17. Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
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#18. 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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#19. Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.
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#20. An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!
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#22. Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.
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#24. If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.
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#26. When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.
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#27. I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
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#28. I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.
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#29. I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.
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#30. It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.
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#31. You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
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#32. I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.
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#34. If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.
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#35. I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
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#36. When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.
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#37. I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
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#38. 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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#41. I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.
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#43. Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.
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#44. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
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#45. I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.
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#46. I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.
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#47. People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
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#49. I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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#50. 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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#51. I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.
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#52. 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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#53. I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
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#54. I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.
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