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I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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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
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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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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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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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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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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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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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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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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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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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I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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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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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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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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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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Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.
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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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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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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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