Jessica Chastain Biography

Actress Jessica Chastain studied her craft at the Julliard School in New York, before launching into her professional career. After landing a few appearances on TV shows like Veronica Mars and ER, Chastain eventually landed the title role in the 2008 independent film Jolene, and soon found herself in other prominent roles, like a Mossaad agent in the 2009 mystery The Debt, though that film didn't reach American screens unti 2011, a year in which Chastain seemes to be in every movie. In addition to playing the loving mother in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, and playing the struggling wife of a schizophrenic in the underrated Take Shelter, and being cast as the wife to Ralph Finnes' Coriolanus, and earning good reviews for the indie drama Texas Killing Fields, Chastain played a kooky, mentally unstable Southern woman in the box office smash The Help, and earned her first Oscar nomination for her supporting work in the film. She was back in the Oscar race the very next year, this time in the Best Actress field for her work as a determined CIA agent hunting Osama Bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

• 1. Hilly Holbrook: What are you tryin' to do to me? What are you and that nigra up to?
  2. Celia Foote: I don't know what you're talkin' about.
  3. Hilly Holbrook: You liar! Who did you tell?.
  4. Celia Foote: Hilly, I got pregnant after you and Johnny broke up!
  5. Missus Walters: Oh, shit!
  From The Help. Submitted by Alyssa B (13 days ago)

• 1. Maya: I'm the motherfucker who found this place, Sir.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Victor M (45 days ago)

• 1. Maya: Kind of like Gandalf?
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Victor M (45 days ago)

• 1. Maya: I don't eat out, it's too dangerous.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Adam O (46 days ago)

• 1. Maya: You can't run a global network of interconnected cells from a cave.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Adam O (46 days ago)

• 1. Maya: You can help yourself by being truthful.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Adam O (46 days ago)

• 1. Maggie Beauford: You just gonna watch me forever?
  2. Forrest Bondurant: Um. Uh, wait, what you doin'?
  From Lawless. Submitted by Miguel V (2 months ago)

• 1. Maya: Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn't there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you're going to kill him for me.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Jillian L (2 months ago)

• 1. Annabel: Victoria, what's under the bed?
  From Mama. Submitted by Erick T (3 months ago)

• 1. Annabel: [Victoria's voice-mail recording] Leave a message after the beep. F*ck you. Beeep!
  From Mama. Submitted by E S (3 months ago)

• 1. Maya: You can help yourself by being truthful.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by PumPuy C (3 months ago)

• 1. Dan: Woah woah woah, calm down.
  2. Maya: I am calm.
  3. Dan: State your request.
  4. Maya: Move heaven and earth, and bring me this fucking Saeed family's phone number.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Sarah L (4 months ago)

• 1. Joseph Bradley: How do you like Pakistan so far?
  2. Maya: It's kinda fucked up.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)

• 1. Maya: [to Navy Seals] Quite frankly, I didn't even want to use you guys, with your dip and velcro and all your gear bullshit. I wanted to drop a bomb. But people didn't believe in this lead enough to drop a bomb. So they're using you guys as canaries. And, in theory, if bin Laden isn't there, you can sneak away and no one will be the wiser. But bin Laden is there. And you're going to kill him for me.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Ken C (4 months ago)

• 1. Joseph Bradley: So how are you liking Pakistan?
  2. Maya: [answers very fast] It's kinda fucked up.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Jay S (4 months ago)

• 1. Lucas / Jeffrey: You sure about this?
  2. Annabel: Nope.
  From Mama. Submitted by Chris P (4 months ago)

• 1. Maya: [after her colleagues are killed and she is cowering in her office she is asked 'What are you going to do?'] I'm going to smoke them and then I'm going to kill Bin Laden.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Paul S (4 months ago)

• 1. Maggie Beauford: [to Forrest Bondurant] Isn't that just like you to believe your own damn legend?
  From Lawless. Submitted by Geoff T (4 months ago)

• 1. Maya: I'm the motherfucker that found this place, sir.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Ben T (4 months ago)

• 1. Maya: I'm the motherfucker that found him.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Jeremy F (4 months ago)

• 1. Maya: There are two narratives about the location of Osama bin Laden. The one that you're most familiar with is that UBL is hiding in a cave in the tribal areas, that he's surrounded by a large contingent of loyal fighters. But that narrative is pre-9/11 understanding of UBL. The second narrative, that he's living in a city, living in a city with multiple points of egress and entry, access to communications, so that he can keep in touch with the organization.You can't run a global network of interconnected cells from a cave.
  From Zero Dark Thirty. Submitted by Michael C (5 months ago)

• 1. Maggie Beauford: You just gonna watch me forever?
  From Lawless. Submitted by Bertram K (6 months ago)

• 1. Gia: Circus stick together.
  From Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Submitted by Talon S (6 months ago)

• 1. Hilly Holbrook: What are you trying to do to me? What are you and that nigra up to?
  2. Celia Foote: I don't know what you're talking about.
  3. Hilly Holbrook: You liar! Who did you tell?
  4. Celia Foote: [shouts] Hilly, I got pregnant after you and Johnny broke up!
  5. Missus Walters: Oh, shit!
  From The Help. Submitted by John Paul G (6 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by. Do good to them. Wonder. Hope.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)

• 1. Gia: Trapeze is my passion.
  From Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Submitted by Maya B (11 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: There are two ways through life: The way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you will follow.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Raymond W (12 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: He is with God now. He's been with God the whole time.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Ilene H (16 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: I give him to you. I give you my son.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Brigita S (17 months ago)

• 1. Minny Jackson: Now Mr. Johnny gonna catch me here, and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor. You gots to tell him. Ain't he wondering how the cooking's so good?
  2. Celia Foote: You're right. Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.
  3. Minny Jackson: Minny don't burn chicken.
  From The Help. Submitted by Dennis L (17 months ago)

• 1. Celia Foote: Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.
  2. Minny Jackson: Minny don't burn chicken.
  From The Help. Submitted by Dennis L (17 months ago)

• 1. Celia Foote: How come they won't accept me?
  From The Help. Submitted by Sean W (18 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: You'll be grown before that tree is tall.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Sean W (18 months ago)

• 1. Celia Foote: I can do this on my own.
  From The Help. Submitted by Alyssa B (19 months ago)

• 1. Samantha: Tell me something... that helps me understand why your being like this.
  2. Curtis LaForche: There's nothing to explain.
  From Take Shelter. Submitted by Chris P (20 months ago)

• 1. Samantha: You want to waste money on a stupid tornado shelter?
  From Take Shelter. Submitted by Chris P (20 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: Without love, your life will flash by.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Matthew J (20 months ago)

• 1. Young Rachel: I'm not brave, I'm terrified.
  From The Debt. Submitted by Chris P (21 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Jarrod H (22 months ago)

• 1. Mrs. O'Brien: The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.
  From The Tree of Life. Submitted by Johnny L (22 months ago)