Jake Gyllenhaal quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

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

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried ... I just don't recommend it!

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young ... " I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

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

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

I have a mentor. I have ... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

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.

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

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'

Every journey starts with fear.

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

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

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

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.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

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

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

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.