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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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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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Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
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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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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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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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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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To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
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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 don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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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 remember people saying, Believe me, everything in your life is going to change... And I thought, Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking. And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.
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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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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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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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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.
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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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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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I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
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