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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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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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I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.
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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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We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
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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.
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It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.
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No matter what, I'm going to ask for more.
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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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Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
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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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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.
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I don't want to torture anything. It's about trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty in the world... While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.
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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, No, you just have anxiety.
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To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.
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I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.
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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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Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.
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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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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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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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