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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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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
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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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It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.
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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 think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.
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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 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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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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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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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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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 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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Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
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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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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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Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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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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The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
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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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