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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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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 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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It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
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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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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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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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There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.
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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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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
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My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
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My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, Make it shorter. Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.
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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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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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It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.
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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 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 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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You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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