Jessica Chastain Quotes

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Have I gone too far?

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I lost my confidence.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

I don't know if I'm brave.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

I'm terrorized by a fear of failure. Failure is always there.

I know what it is like to lose your confidence.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.