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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: November 16
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Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal
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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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To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
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I don't think there are that many parts I could say unequivocally I would not play that, but there's lots of parts I read and I think, I don't really want to do that. I don't really think that's how women act.
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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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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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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 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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Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, That's not how humans behave, or I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom. I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.
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I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.
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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 want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
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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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I studied English literature I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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