This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
Jessica ChastainRead
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.
Interpretation
Stand up against gender pay inequality and advocate for fair compensation.
This quote by Jessica Chastain expresses her firm stance against gender pay disparity in the entertainment industry. She asserts her refusal to accept any role that pays her significantly less than her male counterparts, highlighting the importance of self-advocacy and equality in the workplace.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming inequality.
This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
I just want to see more women in film and behind the camera. I'm tired of seeing movies from one perspective.
We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
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.
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.
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?
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.
If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
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