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

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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I always find you go back to an animal it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
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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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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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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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At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up becoming fascinated with Eastern Religion, and ultimately it seemed to encompass the more abstract mind that I have.
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When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.
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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?
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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!
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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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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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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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Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.
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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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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.
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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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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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