Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Daughter, Looks, Internet

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that 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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Strange, Aliens

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Seems, Bits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Ideas, Trying, Succeed

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Artist, Important

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• Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Order, Space, Actors

  "The Dark Knight - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sir Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Political, Honestly, Implications

  "Talking with Maggie Gyllenhaal about Won’t Back Down". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Important, World

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Real, Home, Kids

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Pregnancy, Knowing, Interesting

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• We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have been collecting information from our phones at any moment. I think that basically as humans, we feel that's a violation.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Phones, Government

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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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."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Play, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Years, Directors, Actresses

  "Agant Orange: Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her co-starring role in the new caper film Criminal". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 9, 2004.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Morning, Play, Evening

  "Maggie Gyllenhaal for 'Criminal'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 9, 2004.

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• If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

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  Inspiring, Mom, Daughter

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• I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Fighting, Thinking, Nsa

  "h Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Doe, Roles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Independent, Order, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  People, Needs, Littles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Years, People

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• I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Daughter, Nursing, Thinking

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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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.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  People, Challenges, Trying

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