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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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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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I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
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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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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
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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 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 I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, particularly in movies, that's interesting, because it's created by the film maker, that was created by David Fincher, that's why he's brilliant.
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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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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 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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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 think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, I want to wear a mask and escape, you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.
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