Jessica Chastain Quotes

I started a theater company when I was 17.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Theater is hard.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

I have such a passion for theatre.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Theatre was always my passion.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

You can only do so much theatre.

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

You have to be crazy to do theater.

I like theater; I just don't really like actors.

My love is the theater.

I have always wanted to do theater.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.