Chastain: "I try not to fake anything."

Chastain: "I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal."

Chastain: "I take great responsibility in any character that I play."

Chastain: "I'm going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women."

Chastain: "I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women."

Chastain: "If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!"

Chastain: "I'm such a geek."

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."

Chastain: "I don't want people to look at me."

Chastain: "I sometimes go to a movie and eat my popcorn and turn my brain off. I love those movies. But the movies I like to be in, for the most part, are the ones that challenge you."

Chastain: "I've spent my life being embarrassed."

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."

Chastain: "I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about."

Chastain: "I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life."

Chastain: "There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away."

Chastain: "I never heard in my entire life that a man was overprepared for anything. I am overprepared in my life. What's wrong with being ambitious, being overprepared, being one step ahead?"

Chastain: "My favourite smell is the smell of cut grass, and the sound of sprinklers going on."

Chastain: "The great thing about modern feminism is that women can define what it means to them: it can mean being ambitious, it can mean being emotional, it can mean being sensitive and compassionate and also a leader. It can mean all those things."

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

Chastain: "I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people."

Chastain: "We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say."

Chastain: "When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family."

Chastain: "The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you."

Chastain: "For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time."

Chastain: "Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it's all women's responsibility to step forward."

Chastain: "I'm the first person in my family to go to college."

Chastain: "I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?"

Chastain: "I started a production company - all female led, actually - called Freckle Films."

Chastain: "Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood."

Chastain: "I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed."

Chastain: "I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life."

Chastain: "I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of."

Chastain: "As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?"

Chastain: "I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective."

Chastain: "What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society."

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

Chastain: "My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples."

Chastain: "I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair."

Chastain: "I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too."

Chastain: "I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress."

Chastain: "I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'"

Chastain: "One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective."

Chastain: "Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward."

Chastain: "Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world."

Chastain: "Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind."

Chastain: "If I get a role, it's because I fought for it."