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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: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence.
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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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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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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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They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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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, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.
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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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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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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 hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
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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.
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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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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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