183 Quotes by Jessica Chastain

I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.

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.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

I don’t want people to look at me.

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.

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.

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.

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.