A biography for Jessica Chastainhasn’t been written yet.
“If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.”
“I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'”
“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.”
“I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.”
“The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.”
“I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.”
“It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.”
“There I was at 'The Tree of Life' premiere, holding hands with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. That walk down the red carpet was a real rite of passage for me. Suddenly, journalists began asking, 'Who's this actress?'”
“I actually chose to do 'X-Men' because I'm working with Simon Kinberg, who's also a first-time filmmaker who I met on 'The Martian' and is an incredible writer and producer.”
“Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.”
“One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, 'No, I want to be the villain.' I'm waiting for that call!”
“I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.”
“I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.”
“I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.”
“I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.”
“I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?”
“Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.”