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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
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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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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But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.
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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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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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My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
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I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
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I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
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There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, All right, now you go with abandon, you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.
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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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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've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!
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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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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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I love artists. I love watching other people work.
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Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.
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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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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
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