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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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 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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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!
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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.
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I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
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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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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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