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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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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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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
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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 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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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
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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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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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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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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 walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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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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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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I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
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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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Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.
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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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