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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.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: November 16
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal
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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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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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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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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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