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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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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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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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Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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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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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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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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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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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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There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it's like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it's just always there.
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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 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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