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'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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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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Sexuality
Western
Mountain
Takes
Cowboys
America
Stirs
Love
Conceptions
Cowboy

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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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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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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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I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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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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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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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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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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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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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
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Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
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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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