Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
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 I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
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I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You've got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, 'And it's okay if I wear nude tights with this?' to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
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Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.
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My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
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Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
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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.
