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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

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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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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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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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I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
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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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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 admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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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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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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As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
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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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Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.
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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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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to 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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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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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.
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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.
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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.
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