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There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it's like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it's just always there.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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LA
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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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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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
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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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As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
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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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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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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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My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, Make it shorter. Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.
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I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.
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I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
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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 experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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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 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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Every journey starts with fear.
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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 walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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