Top 50 Jessica Chastain Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.”

— Jessica Chastain

2. “I don’t want people to look at me.”

— Jessica Chastain

3. “If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.”

— Jessica Chastain

4. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

5. “Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.”

— Jessica Chastain

6. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

7. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

8. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

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

— Jessica Chastain

10. “I have problems because I’m very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.”

— Jessica Chastain

11. “No one ever recognizes me.”

— Jessica Chastain

12. “Any man that dates me, the thing they’re gonna have to live up is my dad – he’s a real hero.”

— Jessica Chastain

13. “I’ve spent my life being embarrassed.”

— Jessica Chastain

14. “I think that with any emotion – fear, love, nervousness – if the actor’s feeling it, then the audience feels it.”

— Jessica Chastain

15. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

16. “I don’t really drink, and I’ve never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.”

— Jessica Chastain

17. “I can’t even open my eyes underwater.”

— Jessica Chastain

18. “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!”

— Jessica Chastain

19. “Okay, I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I’m a very superstitious person. I’m walking onto the plane as we speak. I’m putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.”

— Jessica Chastain

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

— Jessica Chastain

21. “I try not to fake anything.”

— Jessica Chastain

22. “I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.”

— Jessica Chastain

23. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

24. “I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I’m going to hunker down and be warm, but it’s also very feminine.”

— Jessica Chastain

25. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

26. “People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who’d been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.”

— Jessica Chastain

27. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

28. “I’m inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.”

— Jessica Chastain

29. “I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.”

— Jessica Chastain

30. “When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don’t think anyone knew what to do with me.”

— Jessica Chastain

31. “It takes me a LONG time to make a big purchase.”

— Jessica Chastain

32. “It’s easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera’s not rolling, I’ll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.”

— Jessica Chastain

33. “I don’t like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.”

— Jessica Chastain

34. “I love talking about acting. I’m just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.”

— Jessica Chastain

35. “I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.”

— Jessica Chastain

36. “I’m the unknown everyone’s already sick of.”

— Jessica Chastain

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

— Jessica Chastain

38. “I’ve had to learn how to say ‘no’ to offers.”

— Jessica Chastain

39. “I don’t want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.”

— Jessica Chastain

40. “I’m used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.”

— Jessica Chastain

41. “I’ve actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I’m carrying no baggage. They haven’t seen me in anything, even though I’ve done nine films.”

— Jessica Chastain

42. “When you’re on a Terrence Malick film, it’s like you’re part of a family.”

— Jessica Chastain

43. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

44. “Broadway has always been a dream of mine.”

— Jessica Chastain

45. “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.”

— Jessica Chastain

46. “Before, it was just about making the films – and now it’s releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.”

— Jessica Chastain

47. “I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I’m in awe of them.”

— Jessica Chastain

48. “I’ve never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.”

— Jessica Chastain

49. “When something happens, I always check myself and know it’s going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you’ll go crazy.”

— Jessica Chastain

50. “I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I’m doing a film or a job. For me, it’s always about the script and whether I’m doing something that I’ve never done before.”

— Jessica Chastain