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I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
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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'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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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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I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.
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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 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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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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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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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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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 always find you go back to an animal it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
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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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I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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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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