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I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.

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Jessica Chastain
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 24
Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Sacramento
California
Jessica Michelle Chastain
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I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.
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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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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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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.
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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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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'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
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Broadway has always been a dream of mine.
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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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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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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, No, you just have anxiety.
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It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.
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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 don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.
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Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.
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Someone doesn't think immediately, I want to be a lobbyist.
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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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I take great responsibility in any character that I play.
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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 café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
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