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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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
It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Time matters less than the nature of the people.
— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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!
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Having an education is invaluable.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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
I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I have a couple of girlfriends who are like, healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm pretty good at indulging myself. I'm about to go travel for a week. I like to get massaged, go into steam rooms. I take care of myself.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.
— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
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?
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Someone who's 26, 27, has a very different relationship to sex than someone who's 30.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Every journey starts with fear.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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?'
— Jake Gyllenhaal
As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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
My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm superstitious a little bit.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm open to whatever people want to call me.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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
Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal is such a nice guy.
— Jolene Purdy
Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
I love artists. I love watching other people work.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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.
— Jake Gyllenhaal