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I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

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 younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.
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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 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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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 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 admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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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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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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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
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People say to me, well What's the character you really want to play? And I go, I don't know.
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What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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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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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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What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
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It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.
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