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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

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
Producer
Producers
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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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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.
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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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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
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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 fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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People say to me, well What's the character you really want to play? And I go, I don't know.
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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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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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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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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence.
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
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I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, I want to wear a mask and escape, you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.
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I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.
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