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I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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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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Having an education is invaluable.
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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 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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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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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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I studied English literature I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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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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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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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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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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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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To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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Some people would say you need what you need to work, but 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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If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.
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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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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 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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