Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I don't like allegories.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
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British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
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I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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Well, what are you going to do about it?
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
