183 Quotes by Jessica Chastain

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

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

I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.

An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!

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 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.

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

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

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.