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

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Jessica Chastain
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 24
Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Sacramento
California
Jessica Michelle Chastain
Prepared
Okay
Ambitious

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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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I take great responsibility in any character that I play.
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I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.
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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've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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It takes me a long time to make a big purchase...
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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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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.
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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 always say I am a realist, and my mom says, No, you just have anxiety.
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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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Someone doesn't think immediately, I want to be a lobbyist.
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Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.
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I can't even open my eyes underwater.
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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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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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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 didn't understand how much senators and members of the House are not able to represent the people because they're too busy fundraising to maintain their seat in office. I hope we as a country start looking at how we can change that.
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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'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
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