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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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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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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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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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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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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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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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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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 started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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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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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 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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I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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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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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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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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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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