Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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

Jake Gyllenhaal

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  

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• I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

  

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

  

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  • Theatre

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

  

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• The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

  

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

  

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• 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?'

  

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• Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

  

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

  

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  • Training

• My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

  

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• Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

  

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• Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

  

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• I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

  

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  • Character

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

  

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• If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.

  

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• I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

  

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• Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

  

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• I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

  

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• I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

  

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

  

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  • Perspective

• I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal