What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they’re offering me in comparison to the guy. I don’t care about how much I get paid; I’m in an industry where we’re overcompensated for the work we do. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don’t determine my worth based on what’s left over. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
I can’t tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven’t made a single movie about a woman. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
We have grown up watching women be used as props on a man’s journey. It’s not our fault that that’s what we saw as children. But we need to acknowledge that and do better. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
My grandmother took me to a play, and… there was a little girl on stage. And as soon as I saw her on stage, I thought, ‘This is my job’… I was probably, like, 7 or 8. I was very young… It was ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
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. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
I went to public school, and I didn’t do well in school. And it wasn’t until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard – it was the first time in my life that I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not stupid,’ because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
My grandmother came with me when I moved out to New York. She stayed with me for a week. I was, you know, living in the dorm. The first year, I had a lot of anxiety, and, I remember, my teachers kept saying I had so much jaw tension. Jessica Chastain Read Quote
