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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: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
Spinning
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Family
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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.
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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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Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.
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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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I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
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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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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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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.
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When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.
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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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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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I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
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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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Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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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 think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
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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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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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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
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