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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

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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
Vulnerable
Mess
Cool
Mean

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What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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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 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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They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
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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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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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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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Every journey starts with fear.
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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 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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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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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 think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
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I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?
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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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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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