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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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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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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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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I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
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I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
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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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I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
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I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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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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I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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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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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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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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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.
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Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.
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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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