Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes - Page 2

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• I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I'm superstitious a little bit.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Littles, Superstitious, Bits

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Funny, Pigs, Dumb

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• I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Spiritual, Trying, Persons

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• Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Stars, Important, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fighting, Yelling, Sky

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Regret, Fields

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• I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Night, Ideas, Knowing

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  People, Comedian, Knows

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Aliens, Separation

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Stories, Rehearsal, Way

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Mom, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of ways. In terms of as an artist, the way we could communicate as a family very clearly was through movies and through acting, and when things became complicated with all of our own personalities, that's where we are most clear. I think that's also where we are most brutal with each other as well.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Artist, Thinking, Personality

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Perspective, Way, Different

  Interview with Susan Sarandon, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2002.

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• As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Actors, Saws, Honest

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Character, Play, People

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Sigh Of Relief, Looks, World

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• I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. Someone pulls a gun on her I think, I'm not really fully aware of the scene and she just, she starts, you see her terrified. And then all of a sudden she starts to burst out laughing. She starts laughing. Like she can't stop laughing. Because she's terrified and she's emotional and there are no rules to what you're supposed to feel. That to me is like A number one, that's the thing I have to remind myself all the time.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Gun, Emotional, Thinking

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Workout, Long, Biceps

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• I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Style

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Fooled, Pregnant

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Mean, Bisexual, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Exercise, Mind, Brain

  "Jake Gyllenhaal: 'I'm moved by folk you might struggle to love at first'". Interview with Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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