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There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

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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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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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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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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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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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
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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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I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
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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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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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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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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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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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My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, Make it shorter. Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.
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Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.
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I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.
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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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