Top 100 Quotes About Jake Gyllenhaal
#1. I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.
Daveigh Chase
#2. I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.
Sarah Gadon
#4. I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
Anna Kendrick
#5. I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.
Elizabeth Banks
#6. One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
Dwayne Johnson
#7. It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
Benedict Cumberbatch
#8. I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#9. The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.
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#10. There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it's like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it's just always there.
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#11. Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.
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#12. You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple.
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#13. I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
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#15. I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.
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#16. Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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#17. I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.
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#18. I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
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#19. I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
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#21. Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
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#22. Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.
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#23. On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.
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#24. What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
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#25. I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
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#26. I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.
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#27. I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'
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#28. I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
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#29. Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
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#30. It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
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#31. One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.
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#32. I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.
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#33. We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.
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#34. When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all of the things I could have watched and learned - and I didn't. And how, now, in my career, how I would love to have a ton of takes.
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#35. The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.
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#36. Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.
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#37. When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.
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#38. I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.
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#39. There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now you go with abandon," you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.
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#40. I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.
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#41. In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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#43. I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
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#44. To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.
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#45. I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!
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#46. I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."
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#47. We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.
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#48. Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.
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#49. The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music.
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#50. I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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#51. I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.
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#52. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
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#53. Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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#54. I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?
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#55. You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
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#56. I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young ... " I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
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#57. Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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#58. I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
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#59. There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.
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#60. I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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#61. I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
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#62. By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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#63. The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
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#64. I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
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#65. Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.
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#67. I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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#68. When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
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#69. Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
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#70. I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.
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#72. I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
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#73. In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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#74. I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.
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#75. I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.
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#76. I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so ...
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#78. I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.
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#79. If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
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#80. Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
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#81. It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.
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#82. Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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#83. People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.
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#84. I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.
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#85. 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
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#86. I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.
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#87. Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.
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#88. I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
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#89. I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.
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#90. One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.
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#91. Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.
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#92. There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.
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#93. I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
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#94. I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.
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#95. At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.
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#96. I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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#98. When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.
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#99. I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
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#100. I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
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