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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
Fear
Every
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Journey

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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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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 promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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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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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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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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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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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
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When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.
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Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.
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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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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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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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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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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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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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