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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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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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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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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.
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I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
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You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
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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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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
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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 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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I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
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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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Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
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I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
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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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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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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
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