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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 16
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.
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Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.
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I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.
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You're invited to tons of parties, and you'll wear these shoes and that dress, and it can be enticing, but I think it also sucks you dry. If you do it a little, sure, it's fun, but too much and you start to lose your footing.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't.
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I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.
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I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.
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I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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The real test will be having a family when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.
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I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
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