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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: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
LA
California
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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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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Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
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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 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 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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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where we can kind of create the reality that we believe to be as opposed to the reality that is. It is about the beyond and the unknown in a different way than pretty much any type of storytelling is.
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Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
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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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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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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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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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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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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to 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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