Jessica Chastain Monologues

Lobbying is about foresight. About anticipating your opponent's moves and devising counter measures. The winner plots one step ahead of the opposition. And plays her trump card just after they play theirs. It's about making sure you surprise them. And they don't surprise you.

Career suicide's not so bad when you consider the alternative is suicide by career.

That would explain the low rate of dildo-related murders in Texas.

Cynical is a word used by Pollyannas to denote an absence of the naiveté they so keenly exhibit.

Forde, human interaction is an exchange, my money for your...

I was gonna say skill-set. But that's only exchange I'm willing to make.

Prison's not so bad if you don't have a penis. The guys shank each other, we form self-help groups. There's a black market economy in lip gloss.

It's good practice to keep your circle small. In this town, no matter where you are, you're never more than two feet from a rat.

I'd like to shoot you like a dog.

On the other side of that wall, I have a place. A secret garden. There is no wind there. I go there when I'm anxious. I'm anxious all the time. I'm always longing for some other place. You cannot imagine how different I want my life to be.

I'm sending you out into the world. Look. You're like bright-colored stars. The water is your heaven. Do you know that, my flowers? Yes. Everything is so much bigger than the little pieces. Do you know that?

Hey Dad. You sonabitch. Never made one of these while you were still responding because I was so mad at you for leaving. And when you went quiet, it seemed like I should live with that decision, and I have. But today's my birthday. And it's a special one, because you told me… you once told me that by the time you came back we might be the same age. And today I'm the same age you were when you left.

So it'd be a real good time for you to come back.

A feeling. I told you about my ghost. My dad thought I called it a ghost, because I was scared of it. But I was never scared of it. I called it a ghost, because it felt… it felt like a person; like it was trying to tell me something. If there's an answer here on earth it's back there, somehow in that room.

He came back! It was him! All this time... I... I didn't know it was him. Dad's gonna save us!