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When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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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
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Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
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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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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
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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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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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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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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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You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.
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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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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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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 promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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I always find you go back to an animal it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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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 admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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Every journey starts with fear.
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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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