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Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
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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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You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
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I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
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I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
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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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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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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.
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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 love artists. I love watching other people work.
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I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where we can kind of create the reality that we believe to be as opposed to the reality that is. It is about the beyond and the unknown in a different way than pretty much any type of storytelling is.
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I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
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