Jessica Chastain Quotes

I can't even open my eyes underwater.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

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.

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

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.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Look, if anyone is scared, I got your back.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

No matter what, I'm going to ask for more.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

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.

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

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.

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

I find that the monsters are usually the people that I have the most empathy for because they're the ones that are hurt the most. There's a reason why they're the monsters.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

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.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

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.

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.

I try not to fake anything.

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.

When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

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.

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

My grandmother used to say, "Sometimes the loudest person in the room doesn't know what they're talking about." Or isn't secure enough in his or her own views to be able to listen to others.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.

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?

I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

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.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

No one ever recognizes me.

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.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.