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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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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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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I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
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When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.
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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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I'm superstitious a little bit.
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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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To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.
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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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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 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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'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
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When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.
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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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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 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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I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
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Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.
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By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
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I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
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