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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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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 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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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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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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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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One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.
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I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, particularly in movies, that's interesting, because it's created by the film maker, that was created by David Fincher, that's why he's brilliant.
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I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.
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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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Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.
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In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
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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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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
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My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
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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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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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