183 Quotes by Jessica Chastain

I started a production company - all female led, actually - called Freckle Films.

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.

When 'Tree of Life' went to Cannes, all the interviewers were asking me about my favorite actors and actresses because I was new to the industry, and they wanted to get to know me.

I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?

Gian Luca and I have been together for such a long time, we're in it for the long haul.