Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
Point
Trying
Mind
Really
Exhaustion
Like
Result
Exercise
Results
Brain
More quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
Jake Gyllenhaal
My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
Jake Gyllenhaal
I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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?
Jake Gyllenhaal
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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?
Jake Gyllenhaal
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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!
Jake Gyllenhaal
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
Jake Gyllenhaal
In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
Jake Gyllenhaal