A biography for Jessica Chastainhasn’t been written yet.
“What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.”
“My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on.”
“If you're one of the only women on a set - if it's you and a bunch of men - you feel like your value doesn't come from your thoughts and your talent and what you say: your value comes from how you look and how you're perceived by the men around you.”
“I'm the first person in my family to go to college.”
“I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.”
“I take great responsibility in any character that I play.”
“The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.”
“I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.”
“I struggled for so long to try to create a career.”
“Gian Luca and I have been together for such a long time, we're in it for the long haul.”
“Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.”
“If I get a role, it's because I fought for it.”
“What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.”
“I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.”
“I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed.”
“One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.”
“Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.”
“This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.”
“I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.”
“This is what the media does with women. You try to divide and conquer women so you can intimidate and victimise them. This is why they don't make movies where a lot of women get to be on set together. It's about dividing.”