Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

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.

Jake Gyllenhaal

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Group

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Trying
  • You
  • Burden

• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Fight

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• It's always good to be working.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Good
  • Always
  • Working

• In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Past
  • Romantic

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Fighting

• Coaches are people who are close to you, who you call family.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • People
  • Family

• The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Children
  • Profound
  • Sorrows

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• What's cool is when people send me messages or tag me in their photos, which definitely happens more after a project comes out. The best part, I think, is that the DMs and tags are always from young girls, and reaching them is the most important thing for me.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Projects

• 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.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important
  • Art
  • Respect