Jessica Chastain Quotes

There seem to be more women producers than men.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I've worked with so few female directors.

I always had more women working for me than men.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

There are no boys in this game.

Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.