Chastain Quotes & Sayings

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?' — Jessica Chastain

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

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch. — Brandi Chastain

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking. — Brandi Chastain

I love soccer; I want to be on the field. — Brandi 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. — Jessica Chastain

Welcome to the Dark Side. Are You Surprised We Lied about the Cookies? — Rebecca Chastain

I've spent my life being embarrassed. — Jessica Chastain

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen. — Jessica Chastain

Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film. — Jessica Chastain

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting. — Rebecca Chastain

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts. — Brandi Chastain

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again. — Jessica Chastain

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

I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal. — Hope Solo

The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people. — Brandi Chastain

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

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

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles. — Jessica Chastain

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. — Brandi Chastain

I am the boss of my underpants. You can be the boss of yours. — Ragen Chastain

Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising. — Brandi Chastain

What's a tiny woman like you doing with this half-pint sword? — Rebecca Chastain

I glanced heavenward and asked for help to stop acting like a complete idiot around Niko. If this was how my ancestors responded to sexy men, it was a wonder we'd ever propagated. — Rebecca Chastain

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you. — Brandi Chastain

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me. — Brandi Chastain

I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge. — Brandi Chastain

I try not to fake anything. — Jessica Chastain

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself. — Brandi Chastain

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it. — Jessica Chastain

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field. — Brandi Chastain

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of. — Jessica Chastain

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week. — Jessica Chastain

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

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again. — Brandi Chastain

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up. — Jessica Chastain

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

My job was to fight evil, and my soul was my weapon. — Rebecca Chastain

I don't mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man's story. The great directors I've talked to, I've said listen, I don't mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that's different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn't make sense, because it's just like being a prop. — Jessica Chastain

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

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

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. — Brandi Chastain

I'm a wannabe redhead, definitely wannabe Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain redhead. But I love being a brunette. — Karla Souza

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek. — Jordan Gavaris

It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective. — Jessica Chastain

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve. — Jessica Chastain

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing. — Jessica Chastain

A spider is hardly an excuse to abuse a book. — Rebecca Chastain

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. — Brandi Chastain

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me. — Jessica Chastain

No one ever recognizes me. — Jessica Chastain

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work. — Jessica Chastain

If I'd waited for you to get your nerve up, it would still be sucking the life force from me. Clean your panties; we're on the hunt again. — Rebecca Chastain

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago. — Natalie Dormer

Some great actors have had substantial training and some have not. I am biased toward the well-trained theatre actor because I am passionate about theatre and the special devotion it takes to pursue that love. Oddly, there doesn't seem to be a correlation between success as a working actor and training. Mark Duplass ("The League," Your Sister's Sister) has never had a formal acting class in his life. As long as you're a good, compelling actor, you will book jobs. Actors who graduate from Julliard (Jessica Chastain) book jobs and actors who have never had an acting class in their life work regularly in both TV and film. — Cathy Reinking

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero. — Jessica Chastain

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates. — Brandi Chastain

I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today. — Brandi Chastain

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. — Brandi Chastain

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous. — Heather O'Reilly

And needy," Doris said. "You sound ancient and unhelpful," I shot back. — Rebecca Chastain

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it. — Brandi Chastain

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

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. — Brandi Chastain

Bubble gum on a turd, Madison! You're a tutti-frutti enforcer. I am a warden. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. — Rebecca Chastain

I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem! — Brandi Chastain

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

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

I'm such a geek. — Jessica Chastain

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me. — Brandi Chastain

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it. — Jessica Chastain

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion. — Jessica Chastain

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas. — Brandi Chastain

I'm the first person in my family to go to college. — Jessica Chastain

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together. — Brandi Chastain

What she revealed was not sexy lingerie, but a supportive piece of athletic equipment. After the consolation match that preceded the championship game, both Brazilian and Norwegian players removed their jerseys and exchanged them on the floor of the Rose Bowl. Chastain had previously removed her jersey after regulation to air it out. While training in Florida, the players frequently doffed their shirts after practice in the smothering heat, and they sometimes gave interviews in their sports bras, which were items of utility, not titillation. Chastain 'has brought instant attention to a piece of clothing that is humble and practical, not a traditional bra of shine and lace and cleavage, but a sturdy compression garment,' wrote Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post. 'The sports bra is the cloth symbol of Title IX's success. — Jere Longman

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

Funny, how the American team appealed to so many people because it was unsullied by money, and selfishness and corporate fingerprints, and yet when Chastain removed her shirt the old cynicism returned immediately. Surely, many thought and wrote, she had a deal with Nike to flash her bra and to make her body a living, breathing mannequin. — Jere Longman

her like that! Run away after turning her — Belle Chastain

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

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment. — Brandi Chastain

I can't even open my eyes underwater. — Jessica Chastain

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself. — Brandi Chastain

Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering. — Brandi Chastain

I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her. — Joey King

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

Broadway has always been a dream of mine. — Jessica Chastain

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

She sighed and lifted her hand to run it along the edge of his lip. "You want to stay here, in the employees' quarters? Wouldn't you be a little out of place?"
"If you're here,it will be the Taj Mahal. — Sandra Chastain

I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face. — Jessica Chastain

I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers. — Jessica Chastain

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. — Brandi Chastain

And to stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I'm an optimist. And I can't help but feel hopeful about the future of film, especially looking at all these beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.' And I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up. — Jessica Chastain

The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone ... I guess 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

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward. — Brandi Chastain

I don't want people to look at me. — Jessica Chastain

When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family. — Jessica Chastain

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me. — Jessica Chastain

So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time. — Brandi Chastain

because she was hungry and "it was too late at night to be bothered with chewing. — Rebecca Chastain